shipwreck
[verb]
Synonyms: beach, cast away, pile up, strand, wreck, ruin, bankrupt, dilapidate, do in

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Related Idioms: go aground, go to the bottom (or Davy Jones's locker), run on the rocks
Related Words: break up, scuttle, founder, capsize, go down, sink

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. ship‧wreck¹ /ˈʃɪp-rek/ noun

1. [uncountable and countable] the destruction of a ship in an accident:
survivors of the shipwreck
narrowly escaping shipwreck

2. [countable] a ship that has been destroyed in an accident Synonym : wreck

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. shipwreck² verb
be shipwrecked if someone is shipwrecked, they are in a boat or ship when it is destroyed in an accident:
Beatty was shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.

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