shipwreck
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From Middle English shipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (“jetsam”), equivalent to ship + wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (“to shipwreck”, verb), Swedish skeppsvrak (“shipwreck”), Danish skibsvrag (“shipwreck”). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.
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shipwreck (countable and uncountable, plural shipwrecks)
- A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.
- 1670, John Dryden, William D'Avenant, The Tempest:
- heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich
- (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
- 1688, John Dryden, The Life of St Francis Xavier:
- they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck
- (figurative) destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:19:
- Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
- 1879, John Morley, Burke:
- It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
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ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy
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event where a ship sinks or runs aground
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destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss
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Verb edit
shipwreck (third-person singular simple present shipwrecks, present participle shipwrecking, simple past and past participle shipwrecked)
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wreck a vessel
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