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Definition: Shipwreck |
ShipwreckNoun1. 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. Verb1. 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 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shipwreck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This list of shipwrecks is of those ships for which the location of their remains is known.
See also:
- Aarhus Historic Shipwreck
- Admiral Graf Spee
- VOC ship Amsterdam
- SS Andrea Doria, 1956
- USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor
- VOC ship Batavia
- Bendigo, North Carolina, USA
- German battleship Bismarck
- Breadalbane, 1853
- Carnatic shipwreck, Red Sea
- USS California (ACR-6) (later San Diego), Long Island
- USS Eagle, Lake Champlain, New York
- Elingamite, New Zealand, 1902
- Cape Gelidonya
- HMS Hampshire
- HMS Hood
- HMS Hussar
- I-18tou midget submarine
- I-52
- Lady Elgin, Chicago, Illinois
- RMS Lusitania
- Mary Celestia
- Mary Rose
- HMS Montague, Lundy Island, England
- USS Monitor
- CSS Muscogee, Georgia, USA
- Nola
- USS Richard Montgomery
- Scharnhorst, Norway
- Nuestra Senora de Atocha - Spanish galleon which sank in 1622 and was found on July 20, 1985 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who soon began to raise $400 million in coins and silver.
- USS Scorpion
- Seattle, Norway
- Snow Squall
- USS Thresher
- USS Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain, New York
- RMS Titanic
- Uluburun
- HMS Wasa, Stockholm, Sweden
- Vicar of Bray
- SS Yongala, Townsville, Australia
- RMS Empress of Ireland, Saint Lawrence River
- Maritime archaeology
- Scuba diving
- Rusticle
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of shipwrecks."
Synonym: ShipwreckSynonym: wreck (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: shipwrecking (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout. | |
Success | Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shipwreck |
| English words defined with "shipwreck": castaway ♦ Flotson ♦ Naufrage, Naufragous ♦ salvage, shipwrecked, Shipwrecking ♦ To do danger ♦ Waveson, Wreck-master. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shipwreck": Casus Major, Coral Beads ♦ Lethean Dew ♦ Melita ♦ Palemon ♦ Ship. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Holy shipwreck! (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick) | |
Lyrics | Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shipwreck (1931) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shipwreck Beach. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Storm, shipwreck, and sea monster - In: Meteorologia philosophico-politica .... Reinzer, Franz, 1661-1708. Published in 1709. P. 55. Call Number: QC859 .R37 1709. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Volitan lionfish - Pterois volitans. Lionfish on shipwreck of the CEDAR PRIDE. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | A shipwreck on Helens Reef. Credit: Small World. |
 | Total destruction of the Democratic platform / terrible shipwreck and loss of life in Salt River. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The shipwreck. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Shipwreck. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Robinson Crusoe in canoe rowing towards shipwreck. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | WAACs. In order to save themselves, as well as others who face the peril of shipwreck at sea, members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps undergo an intensive training course at Daytona Beach, Florida. They learn to become proficient swimmers, but more th. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "I've decided not to tell you about the alleged shipwreck". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sea Through Shipwreck" by John Steenbergen Commentary: "The sea seen through the Maheno shipwreck (Australia, 2003)." | "Shipwreck" by Jeremy Lounds Commentary: "Small shipwrecked boat washed up on shore in shallow water on Lake Superior, Michigan." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. |
Lord Acton | Praise is the shipwreck of historians. |
Publilius Syrus | Society in shipwreck is comfort to all. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is a shipwreck elsewhere than in the water |
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| "Shipwreck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.23% of the time. "Shipwreck" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.23% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.62% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shipwreck": shipwreck survivor ♦ shipwreck victim. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shipwreck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | anijembytje. (various references) | |
Arabic | غرق سفينة (scuttle, sink, sinking), غرق السفينة, حطم (break, break up, crack, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), حطام سفينة (flotsam, wreck, wreckage), حطام (debris, ruins, wrack, wreckage), تغرق السفينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крушение, корабокрушение, гибел (death, disaster, doom, fate, grave, perdition, ruin, ruination, subversion, undoing), провалям (circumvent, countermine, damn, defeat, kill, pip, vote down), претърпявам корабокрушение (cast away, wreck). (various references) | |
Chinese | 遇難船 , 海难. (various references) | |
Czech | ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cast away, cave in, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, founder, go by the board, ground, miscarry, wreck), ztroskotání lodi, vrak (carcass, hulk, wreck, wreckage). (various references) | |
Danish | skibsbrud (sinking). (various references) | |
Dutch | schipbreuk (sinking). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝippereo. (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتی شکسته شدن , کشتی شکستگی (Wrack, Wreck), غرق کشتی , غرق . (various references) | |
Finnish | haaksirikko. (various references) | |
French | naufrage. (various references) | |
German | Schiffbruch (wreck). (various references) | |
Greek | ναυάγιο (wrack, wreck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להטרף בים, לנפץ (dash, detonate, explode, pound, shatter, smash, splinter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajótörés (wreck). (various references) | |
Italian | naufragio (downfall, failure, ruin, setting, sinking, wreck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遭難 (accident, disaster). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいなん (drowning, flood), なんぱせん, なんぱ (flirt, moderate party, scam, scope, skirt chaser, soft school), なんせん, そうなん (accident, disaster), かいなん. (various references) | |
Korean | 난파선. (various references) | |
Manx | lhongvrishey (total wreck), cur jerrey rish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipwreckshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | naufrágio (wrack, wreck, wreckage). (various references) | |
Romanian | ruinã (bankruptcy, break up, burst up, decay, perdition, ruin, ruination, wreck), provoca naufragiul, naufragiu (ship-wreck, wreck), face sã eşueze (defeat, strand), epavã (debris, wreck), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references) | |
Russian | кораблекрушение (shipwrecks). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brodolom (wreckage). (various references) | |
Spanish | naufragio (wreck), hacer naufragar (wreck), catástrofe (catastrophe). (various references) | |
Swedish | skeppsbrott (wreck, wreckage), haveri (average, breakdown, damage, wreck, wreckage). (various references) | |
Turkish | yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall over, fall to pieces, founder, go to pieces, go to ruin, tumble, tumble down, wither away), yıkılma (collapse, crack up, decay, downfall, fall, subversion, wreck), mahvolmak (be destroyed, be perished with, be ruined, canker, go down, go phut, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to ruin, go to the dogs, go west, lie in ruins, smash, smash up), mahvolma (bankruptcy, being destroyed, being ruined, perdition, wreck), kaza yapmak (have an accident, pile up, wreck), karaya oturtmak (ground, pile up, strand, wreck), karaya oturmak (be aground, be stranded, pile up, run aground, run ashore, strand, take ground), harap olmak (be devastated, dilapidate, go to ruin, go to wrack), gemi enkazı (derelict, flotage, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, Lagan, wrack, wreck, wreckage), deniz kazası (accident at sea), bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, spoilage, taint, undoing, upset). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уламки суден, спричинити корабельну аварію, корабельна аварія. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thất bại hoàn toàn bị thất bại, bị phá sản hy vọng bị tiêu tan. (various references) | |
Welsh | llongddryllio, llongddrylliad. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adlide, adlident, adlidet, adlidetur, adlidit, adlisisti, adlisos. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | forlidennes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TriV errabdisqhn apax eliqasqhn triV enauaghsa nucqhmeron en tw buqw pepoihka |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ter virgis caesus sum semel lapidatus sum ter naufragium feci nocte et die in profundo maris fui |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thries Y was betun with yerdis, onys Y was stonyd, thries Y was at shipbreche, a nyyt and a dai Y was in the depnesse of the see; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Thryse was I beten with roddes. I was once stoned. I suffered thryse shipwracke. Nyght and daye have I bene in the depe of the see. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water; |
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| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Sa tulo ka higayon ako giposposan; makausa ako gibato. Makatulo ako malunod; usa ka gabii ug usa ka adlaw nag-utaw-utaw ako sa dagat; |
| Croatian | Triput sam bio šiban, jednom kamenovan, triput doživio brodolom, jednu noæ i dan proveo sam u bezdanu. |
| Danish | Tre Gange er jeg bleven pisket, een Gang stenet, tre Gange har jeg lidt Skibbrud, et Døgn har jeg tilbragt på Dybet; |
| Dutch | Driemaal ben ik met roeden gegeseld geweest, eens ben ik gestenigd, driemaal heb ik schipbreuk geleden, een gansen nacht en dag heb ik in de diepte doorgebracht. |
| Finnish | kolmesti olen saanut raippoja, kerran minua kivitettiin, kolmesti olen joutunut haaksirikkoon, vuorokauden olen meressä ajelehtinut; |
| French | trois fois j`ai été battu de verges, une fois j`ai été lapidé, trois fois j`ai fait naufrage, j`ai passé un jour et une nuit dans l`abîme. |
| German | ich bin dreimal gestäupt, einmal gesteinigt, dreimal Schiffbruch erlitten, Tag und Nacht habe ich zugebracht in der Tiefe des Meers; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tiga kali saya dicambuk oleh orang-orang Roma; pernah pula saya dilempari dengan batu. Tiga kali saya mengalami karam kapal di laut, dan sekali saya terapung-apung di laut selama dua puluh empat jam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | tiga kali aku dicemuk, sekali aku dirajam, tiga kali karam kapal, sehari semalam aku hanyut di laut, |
| Italian | tre volte sono stato battuto con le verghe, una volta sono stato lapidato, tre volte ho fatto naufragio, ho trascorso un giorno e una notte in balìa delle onde. |
| Maori | E toru oku whiunga ki te rakau, kotahi toku akinga ki te kohatu, tuatoru ahau ki te kaipuke pakaru, kotahi oku po, kotahi oku ra i te rire; |
| Norwegian | tre ganger blev jeg hudstrøket, én gang stenet, tre ganger led jeg skibbrudd, et døgn har jeg vært i dypet. |
| Portuguese | Três vezes fui açoitado com varas, uma vez fui apedrejado, três vezes sofri naufrágio, uma noite e um dia passei no abismo; |
| Rumanian | de trei ori am fost bqtut cu nuiele; odatq am fost kmprowcat cu pietre; de trei ori s -a sfqrkmat corabia cu mine; o noapte wi o zi am fost kn adkncul mqrii. |
| Shuar | Numijiai Menaintiú awatturarmai. Kayajaisha mantuatai tusar Chikichkí tukurarmai, kanusha Menaintiú wayamai wi enkempran wekaimiaj nui. Tura nayaantsanam ajapén chikichik kashi nui pujusan tsawarmajai tura nu tsawantcha tuke pujusmajai. |
| Spanish | tres veces he sido flagelado con varas; una vez he sido apedreado; tres veces he padecido naufragio; una noche y un día he estado en lo profundo del mar. |
| Swahili | Nilipigwa viboko mara tatu, nilipigwa mawe mara moja; mara tatu nilivunjikiwa meli baharini, na humo nikakesha usiku kucha na kushinda mchana kutwa. |
| Swedish | Tre gånger har jag blivit piskad med spön, en gång har jag blivit stenad, tre gånger har jag lidit skeppsbrott, ett helt dygn har jag drivit omkring på djupa havet. |
| Uma | Tolu ngkani-a rahuku' to Roma: raweba' -a hante lua'. Hangkani wo'o-a radulu tauna rapana' -a hante watu doko' mpatehi-a. Tolu ngkani kapal to kuhawi' matala hi rala tahi'. Hangkani-a nangko hi lolo tahi' hamengia ha'eoa. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shipwreck": shipwrecked, shipwrecking, shipwrecks. (additional references) | |
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"Shipwreck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shipwrack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-k-p-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: whickers. | |
-2 letters: ceriphs, ciphers, peckish, perkish, pickers, shicker, spheric, whicker, whisker, whisper, wickers. | |
-3 letters: ceriph, chirks, chirps, cipher, cripes, hikers, ickers, kirsch, perish, picker, pikers, precis, prices, pricks, reship, riches, schrik, shriek, shrike, sicker, spicer, spiker, wiches, wicker, wipers, wisher, wrecks, wricks. | |
-4 letters: chews, chips, chirk, chirp, cires, crews, cries, cripe, crisp, epics, hecks. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-k-p-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: shipwrecks. | |
+2 letters: shipwrecked. | |
+3 letters: shipwrecking. | |
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