Synonyms for shipwreck
ˈʃɪpˌrɛkship·wreck

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1. shipwrecknoun

   a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

   Synonyms:
   wreck

2. shipwrecknoun

   an irretrievable loss

   "that was the shipwreck of their romance"

   Synonyms:
   wreck

3. shipwreck, wreckverb

   an accident that destroys a ship at sea

   Synonyms:
   crash, wreck

4. shipwreckverb

   ruin utterly

   "You have shipwrecked my career"

5. shipwreckverb

   suffer failure, as in some enterprise

6. shipwreckverb

   cause to experience shipwreck

   "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"

7. shipwreckverb

   destroy a ship

   "The vessel was shipwrecked"

Matched Categories

1. • Destroy
   • Fail
   • Ruin
   • Seafaring
   • Ship
   • Subject

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1. shipwrecknoun

   Synonyms:
   wreck, ruin, perdition, destruction, miscarriage, overthrow, subversion, demolition

2. shipwreckverb

   Synonyms:
   wreck, strand, flounder, cast away

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1. shipwrecknoun

   Synonyms:
   wreckage, disaster, destruction, ruin, subversion, miscarriage

   Associated words:
   salvage, flotsam, jetsam, derelict, jettison

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1. List of paraphrases for "shipwreck":

   wreck, sinking, naufrage, wreckage, shipwrecks

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1. David Mearns:

   With an interim report due to be delivered within a month of the accident, authorities have expressed hopes a remote underwater vehicle provides evidence. FRENCH SOCCER CLUB DEMAND PAYMENT OVER $ 19M EMILIANO SALA TRANSFER AS DIVERS SEARCH FOR HIS BODY The formal search was called off within three days of the plane disappearing from radar last month. It took a campaign by Salas family to raise funds for a private search by American-born, shipwreck-hunting specialist David Mearns, who located the aircraft within hours on Sunday in conjunction with air crash investigators. David Mearns told BBC Radio Wales that finding the pilots body would be difficult. Ive been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.

2. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Two lovers watch themselves, it’s a shipwreck by fire. (Se regardent deux amoureux : - C'est un naufrage par le feu.)

3. Dave Conlin:

   This kind of archaeological work is painstaking and difficult under any circumstances, but the physical conditions of this particular site — zero visibility, high currents and potential entanglements — made this an especially difficult shipwreck to work on.

4. Fisherman Stratis Valiamos:

   People say' you're a hero,' but this isn't heroism, it's the normal thing to do when Fisherman Stratis Valiamos're fishing and a boat is sinking next to Fisherman Stratis Valiamos and they're screaming for help, Fisherman Stratis Valiamos can't pretend to not hear them, he said. In October, a shipwreck where more than 240 people were rescued took place among.

5. Felix Tshisekedi:

   I am very saddened by the shipwreck of a pirogue on( Monday) April 15 on Lake Kivu. The provisional toll is 150 people missing.