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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
Wreckage, Disaster, Ruin, Catastrophe, Calamity
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