1. An accident that destroys a ship at sea
   "The divers explored the remains of the ancient shipwreck";
   - wreck
    
2. A wrecked ship (or a part of one)
   "Divers explored the shipwreck on the ocean floor"
    
3. An irretrievable loss
   "that was the shipwreck of their romance"

1. Destroy a ship
   "The vessel was shipwrecked"
    
2. Cause to experience shipwreck
   "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea";
   - wreck
    
3. Suffer failure, as in some enterprise
   "The company's ambitious expansion plans were shipwrecked by the economic downturn"
    
4. Ruin utterly
   "You have shipwrecked my career"

Derived forms: shipwrecks, shipwrecking, shipwrecked

Type of: accident, destroy, fail, go wrong, miscarry, ruin, ruination, ship, subject

Encyclopedia: Shipwreck