Look up: shipwreck

1. shipwreck
   [n] - an irretrievable loss 2. [n] - an accident that destroys a ship at sea 3. [n] - a wrecked ship (or a part of one) 4. [v] - ruin utterly 5. [v] - suffer failure, as in some enterprise 6. [v] - cause to experience shipwreck 7. [v] - destroy a ship
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2. Shipwreck
   NATO designation for long-range cruise missile [SU]
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3. Shipwreck
   Ship'wreck` noun 1. The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. 2. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the...
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4. Shipwreck
   Ship'wreck` transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shipwrecked ; present participle & verbal noun Shipwrecking .] 1. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on roc...
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5. shipwreck
   noun a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
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6. shipwreck
   noun an accident that destroys a ship at sea
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7. Shipwreck
   • (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss. • (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. • (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at ...
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8. shipwreck
   (from the article `maritime law`) ...indicated in two passages from the Digest ( 533) of the Roman emperor Justinian. The first quotes the emperor Antoninus (reigned 138–161) in a ... ...work of the Americans Peter Throckmorton and George Bass off the coast of southern Turkey. In 1958 Throckmorton found a graveyard of ancient ship...
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9. shipwreck
   
   • a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
   • an irretrievable loss
   • an accident that destroys a ship at sea
   
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10. shipwreck
    shipwreck, complete or partial destruction of a vessel as a result of collision, fire, grounding, storm, explosion, or other mishap. In the ancient world sea travel was hazardous, but in modern times the number of shipwrecks due to nonhostile causes has steadily declined. Factors contributing to the...
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11. Shipwreck
    A `shipwreck` is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English.<ref name="ScurvyDeath2007">--> A shipwreck could...
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12. Shipwreck
    (G.I. Joe) `Shipwreck` is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe series of toys, cartoons and comics. He was originally created as a character for the Sunbow cartoon series in 1984, and later produced as an action figure, and finally introduced into the comic book in 1985. Profile: According...
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13. Shipwreck
    (book) Shipwreck is a book published in 1974 that contains text by John Fowles and photography by The Gibsons of Scilly. Photography : Four generations of The Gibsons of Scilly captured the images of the various sailing vessels and steamers wrecked on the coasts of the Scilly Isles and West Cornwall from the 1860`s onwards.
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