Definitions
The destruction or loss of a ship at sea.
Word origin
From Middle English shipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (“jetsam”), equivalent to ship + wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (“to shipwreck”, verb), Dutch scheepswrak (“shipwreck”), German Schiffswrack (“shipwreck”), Swedish skeppsvrak (“shipwreck”), Danish skibsvrag (“shipwreck”). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.
Used in a sentence
“heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich”
“The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.”
“they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Marine disaster”9 letters
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