Overview of noun shipwreck

The noun shipwreck has 3 senses

• shipwreck -- (a wrecked ship (or a part of one))


• shipwreck -- (an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance")


• shipwreck, wreck -- (an accident that destroys a ship at sea)

Overview of verb shipwreck

The verb shipwreck has 4 senses

• shipwreck -- (ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career")


• shipwreck -- (suffer failure, as in some enterprise)


• shipwreck -- (cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea")


• shipwreck -- (destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked")