Antonyms for shipwreck

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : ship-rek

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɪpˌrɛk

Definition of shipwreck

Origin : mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant "things cast up from a shipwreck" (c.1100). The earlier word for "shipwreck" in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke, "'ship-break,'" from a North Sea Germanic word, cf. West Frisian skipbrek, Middle Dutch schipbroke, German Schiffbruch, Old English scipgebroc. Old English scipbryce meant "right to claim goods from a wrecked ship."

As in wreck : noun severe damage or severely damaged goods
As in castaway : noun shipwrecked person
As in hulk : noun large piece, lump; remains
As in sink : verb fall in, go under
As in wreck : verb ruin, destroy
As in submerse : verb sink
As in defeat : verb conquer in military manner

Example sentences :

Doctor Chassaigne's story was one of disaster, the shipwreck of a life.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Some of them resulted in terrible disasters of shipwreck and death.
Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle

Mishap, desertion, and shipwreck pursued the luckless commander.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

Shipwreck or burial at sea she deduced from the fact of there being no grave in the cemetery.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

About a shipwreck—something about a shipwreck in it, wasn't there?
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

That would indeed be the end of all—a shipwreck within sight of harbour.
Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini

What good fortune it was to have saved your guitar from shipwreck!
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

It is as in a shipwreck, where the plank that will save two will sink with three.
Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever

It was when the tidings of your shipwreck came that he asked me to come here.
Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever

This could not have been handier for Mr. Massy if he had arranged that shipwreck himself.
Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad

Synonyms for shipwreck

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