shipwreck

/ʃˈɪpɹɛk/

/ˈʃɪpɹɛk/

Shipwreck

a ship that is destroyed or sunk at sea

an accident that destroys a ship at sea

synonyms : wreck

an irretrievable loss

to shipwreck

MAIN VERB

destroy a ship

cause to experience shipwreck

ruin utterly

suffer failure, as in some enterprise

Examples

1. And in this fantasy a group of Europeans are shipwrecked somewhere in the South Pacific.

2. - Are shipwrecks even edible?

3. They've escaped a shipwreck.

4. We saw sharks, stingrays, shipwrecks.