shipwreck
noun
1. a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
Definition categories: man–made, ship
2. an irretrievable loss
- that was the shipwreck of their romance
Definition categories: event, ruin, ruination
3. an accident that destroys a ship at sea
Similar word(s): wreck
verb
1. ruin utterly
- You have shipwrecked my career
Definition categories: social, ruin
2. suffer failure, as in some enterprise
Definition categories: social, fail, miscarry
3. cause to experience shipwreck
- They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea
Definition categories: perception, subject
4. destroy a ship
- The vessel was shipwrecked