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1. A wrecked ship (or a part of one)
    
2. An irretrievable loss
   "that was the shipwreck of their romance"
    
3. An accident that destroys a ship at sea
   - wreck

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

Derived forms: shipwrecked, shipwrecking, shipwrecks

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

Encyclopedia: Shipwreck