Meaning

A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains..

Definitions by Sense

1. A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
2. (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
3. (figurative) Destruction; disaster; failure; ruin; irretrievable loss.
4. To wreck a boat through a collision or other mishap.

Example Sentences

heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich

Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.

The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.

they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck

But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.

Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.

It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.

Word Forms

• shipwrecks
• shipwrack
• shipwrecking
• shipwrecked

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