shipwreck


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Synonyms for shipwreck

to damage, disable, or destroy (a seacraft)

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Synonyms for shipwreck

a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

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an irretrievable loss

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an accident that destroys a ship at sea

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ruin utterly

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suffer failure, as in some enterprise

cause to experience shipwreck

destroy a ship

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It was not precisely because of that shipwreck. He attracted and interested me the more because he was not to be seen.
"Of course I don't shout that fact on the housetops," the Captain addressed me pointedly, "any more than our friend his shipwreck adventure.
And across the table with his air of watchful, unmoved benevolence, enough in itself to arouse one's interest, there was the man with the story of a shipwreck that mustn't be shouted on housetops.
"It so happens," replied his host coolly, "that there was no thunder and lightning at all in the two or three shipwrecks I know of in our family."
"Yes," groaned the Admiral; "by one of those brutal accidents on which are built all the lying mythologies of mankind, they were both shipwrecked. My father, coming up this coast out of the Atlantic, was washed up on these Cornish rocks.
"It's only a poor, mad creature, William," she whispered--"shipwrecked and starving."
The documentary 'Zenobia shipwreck, Mystery of the Spy Sabotage' premiered on Science Channel (by Discovery Channel) recently.
Excavation work on a 2,300-year-old Cyprus shipwreck offers insight into the evolution of Mediterranean shipbuilding technology in the ancient world, Cypriot officials said Wednesday.
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CASCAIS, Portugal (Reuters) - Archaeologists searching Portugal's coast have found a 400-year-old shipwreck believed to have sunk near Lisbon after returning from India laden with spices, specialists said on Monday.
Summary: Washington D.C [USA], Sep 23 (ANI): Archeologists have found a centuries-old shipwreck off Portugal's coast near Lisbon, a local authority said on Saturday.
He said Nigeria is being ridiculed as the shipwreck graveyard of the world.
Royal Cambodian Navy researchers are working to identify a decades-old shipwreck found earlier this month off the coast of Koh Kong province.