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Definition of Shipwreck
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Shipwreck
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. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. 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. Related Definitions:
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Shipwreck Quotations
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Francis Bacon The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. Ovid It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. Pablo Picasso The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. Thomas More |
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Shipwreck Translations
shipwreck in Dutch is schipbreuk shipwreck in German is Schiffbruch |
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