shipwreck
shipwreck is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. Face value is 23 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
- noun. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
- noun. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
- transitive verb. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
- transitive verb. To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
- noun. a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
- noun. an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- noun. an irretrievable loss
"that was the shipwreck of their romance"
- verb. destroy a ship
"The vessel was shipwrecked"
- verb. cause to experience shipwreck
"They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
- verb. suffer failure, as in some enterprise
- verb. ruin utterly
"You have shipwrecked my career"
Synonyms
Common word forms
shipwrecks, shipwrecked, shipwrecking
Words from these letters
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