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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
shipwreck (noun)
1.
a wrecked ship or its parts
2.
the destruction or loss of a ship
3.
an irretrievable loss or failure
shipwreck (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to cause to experience shipwreck
b) - ruin
2.
to destroy (a ship) by grounding or foundering
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
shipwreck (noun)
1.
the destruction or loss of a ship
SYNONYMS:
shipwrecking, wreck, wreckage, wrecking
RELATED WORDS:
beaching, grounding, stranding; foundering, sinking; scuttling
NEAR ANTONYMS:
recovery, salvage, salvaging
shipwreck (noun)
2.
something that has failed
SYNONYMS:
bomb, bummer, bust, catastrophe, clinker, clunker, debacle ( débâcle), disaster, dud, fiasco, fizzle, flop, frost, lemon, loser, miss, shipwreck, turkey, washout
RELATED WORDS:
also-ran, disappointment, dog, has-been, near miss; botch, hash, mess, muddle, shambles; nonevent; nonstarter
NEAR ANTONYMS:
corker, crackerjack ( crackajack), dandy, jim-dandy, phenomenon
blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner
shipwreck (verb)
to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking
SYNONYMS:
strand, wreck
RELATED WORDS:
beach; founder; scuttle
NEAR ANTONYMS:
recover, salvage
Shipwreck (Wikipedia)

A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of shipwrecking, which may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999, according to Angela Croome, a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology (an estimate rapidly endorsed by UNESCO and other organizations). When a ship's crew has died or abandoned the ship, and the ship has remained adrift but unsunk, they are instead referred to as ghost ships.

The shipwreck of SS American Star on the shore of Fuerteventura in 2004
A sonar image of the shipwreck of the Soviet Navy ship Virsaitis in Estonian waters
Johan Christian Dahl: Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast, 1832
Bow of RMS Titanic, first discovered in 1985
Wreck of Costa Concordia
Shipwreck (Wiktionary)

English

Alternative forms

  • shipwrack (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English shipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (jetsam), equivalent to ship +‎ wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (to shipwreck, verb), Swedish skeppsvrak (shipwreck), Danish skibsvrag (shipwreck). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.

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Wreckage, Disaster, Ruin, Catastrophe, Calamity
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