Antonyms for shipwreck
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : ship-rek |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɪpˌrɛk |
- abet
- advance
- aid
- allow
- ascend
- assist
- attract
- bit
- brave
- build
- building
- clear
- construct
- construction
- create
- creation
- cure
- discourage
- displace
- dissuade
- dry
- enable
- encourage
- excite
- facilitate
- fail
- fight
- fill
- fix
- float
- forward
- free
- give up
- go up
- grow
- halt
- heal
- help
- improve
- increase
- inspirit
- let go
- liberate
- lift
- lose
- mend
- neglect
- obey
- open
- permit
- promote
- push
- raise
- release
- remove
- repair
- rise
- save
- stop
- strengthen
- succeed
- support
- surrender
- underwhelm
- win
- yield
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
- 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
- ambush
- annihilate
- bar
- bash
- batter
- beach
- bear down
- beat
- best
- blob
- block
- body
- bore
- break
- bring down
- bulk
- butcher
- capsize
- cast down
- cave in
- chunk
- clod
- clump
- collapse
- couch
- crack up
- crash
- crate
- cripple
- crush
- dash
- debacle
- debris
- decimate
- decline
- demit
- demolish
- depress
- derelict
- descend
- destruction
- devastate
- devastation
- dig
- dilapidate
- dip
- disable
- disappear
- discomfit
- disruption
- do in
- drill
- drive
- droop
- drop
- drown
- ebb
- efface
- engulf
- entrap
- excavate
- fall
- fender bender
- finish off
- flounder
- force down
- founder
- frame
- go down
- go to the bottom
- halt
- heap
- hinder
- hulk
- hull
- hunk
- immerse
- impair
- impede
- injure
- jalopy
- junk
- junker
- lay
- leper
- let down
- lick
- litter
- lower
- mangle
- mar
- maroon
- mass
- mess
- mess up
- mow down
- obliterate
- obstruct
- outcast
- outflank
- outlaw
- outmaneuver
- overpower
- overrun
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pariah
- parry
- pile up
- pile-up
- plummet
- plunge
- prevail over
- put down
- put out of commission
- quell
- ram
- ravage
- raze
- rear-ender
- reduce
- regress
- relic
- renegade
- repel
- repress
- reprobate
- repulse
- roll back
- rout
- route
- ruin
- ruins
- run
- run aground
- sabotage
- sack
- sag
- scatter
- scuttle
- set
- settle
- shambles
- shatter
- shell
- shipwreck
- sink
- skeleton
- slaughter
- slope
- slump
- smash
- smash up
- smashup
- spoil
- stab
- stick
- stoop
- strand
- subdue
- subjugate
- submerge
- subside
- subvert
- suppress
- surmount
- swamp
- take apart
- take out
- tear up
- thrust
- tip over
- torpedo
- total
- touch bottom
- trample
- trash
- undermine
- upset
- vandalize
- vanquish
- waif
- waste
- whip
- wipe out
- wrack
- wrack up
- wreck
- wreckage
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