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shipwreck

English

  1. 🔊 a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
  2. 🔊 an accident that destroys a ship at sea
  3. 🔊 an irretrievable loss
    “that was the shipwreck of their romance”
  4. 🔊 destroy a ship
    “The vessel was shipwrecked”
  5. 🔊 cause to experience shipwreck
    “They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea”
  6. 🔊 suffer failure, as in some enterprise
  7. 🔊 ruin utterly
    “You have shipwrecked my career”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 derrelicto shipwreck
  2. 🔊 naufragio shipwreck

Similar words

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