shipwreck

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Etymology

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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Noun

shipwreck (countable and uncountable, plural shipwrecks)

  1. A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.
  2. (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
  3. (figurative) destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss

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Verb

shipwreck (third-person singular simple present shipwrecks, present participle shipwrecking, simple past and past participle shipwrecked)

  1. To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.

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