• noun:   a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
• noun:   an accident that destroys a ship at sea
• noun:   an irretrievable loss

  Example: "That was the shipwreck of their romance"

• verb:   cause to experience shipwreck

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

• verb:   suffer failure, as in some enterprise
• verb:   ruin utterly

  Example: "You have shipwrecked my career"

• verb:   destroy a ship

  Example: "The vessel was shipwrecked"

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