Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 23 · Words With Friends 24 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
- 3noun
Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6noun
a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
- 7noun
an accident that destroys a ship at sea
Synonyms
- 8noun
an irretrievable loss
"that was the shipwreck of their romance"
- 9verb
destroy a ship
"The vessel was shipwrecked"
- 10verb
cause to experience shipwreck
"They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
- 11verb
suffer failure, as in some enterprise
- 12verb
ruin utterly
"You have shipwrecked my career"
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