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Meaning of shipwreck

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  shipwreck
      n 1: a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
      2: an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their
         romance"
      3: an accident that destroys a ship at sea [syn: {shipwreck},
         {wreck}]
      v 1: ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"
      2: suffer failure, as in some enterprise
      3: cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one
         of the mysteries at sea"
      4: destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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