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Definition: Shipwrecked |
ShipwreckedAdjective1. Suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island". 2. Aground as a consequence of a shipwreck. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shipwrecked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Synonym: ShipwreckedSynonym: castaway (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shipwrecked |
| English words defined with "shipwrecked": be adrift, blow ♦ castaway ♦ drift ♦ float ♦ Robinson Crusoe ♦ shipwreck, shipwreck survivor ♦ welter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shipwrecked": Lion Sermon ♦ Prospero ♦ Ship ♦ WHIP JACKS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I used to live like Robinson and Crusoe, shipwrecked among 8 million people but one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bosko Shipwrecked! (1931) Shipwrecked (1926) Skinny's Shipwrecked Sand-Witch (1917) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Through the glasses could be seen the shipwrecked couple standing side by side on the strand. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shipwrecked woman praying at religious shrine near raging river] / C.F.L. Debr. 30. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Shipwreck" by Jeremy Lounds Commentary: "Small shipwrecked boat washed up on shore in shallow water on Lake Superior, Michigan." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | I was shipwrecked before I got aboard. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Malta | During Roman rule, in A.D. 60, Saint Paul was shipwrecked on Malta at a place nowl called St. Paul's Bay. (references) |
Latvia | German sailors shipwrecked on the Daugava River in 1054 had inhabited the area, which led to increasing German influence. (references) | |
Bermuda | In 1609, a group of British colonists led by Sir George Somers was shipwrecked and stranded on the islands for 10 months. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shipwrecked" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.15% of the time. "Shipwrecked" is used about 39 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.15% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 41.03% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.82% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shipwrecked": be shipwrecked ♦ shipwrecked man ♦ shipwrecked person. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shipwrecked | 57 |
bead shipwrecked | 8 |
sailor shipwrecked story | 3 |
malia shipwrecked walsh | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shipwrecked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 遇海难. (various references) | |
Danish | skibbruden (castaway, shipwrecked person), lide skibbrud (to be shipwrecked). (various references) | |
Dutch | schipbreukeling (castaway, shipwrecked person), schipbreuk lijden (to be shipwrecked). (various references) | |
Finnish | haaksirikkoutua (be shipwrecked), haaksirikkoinen (wrecked). (various references) | |
French | naufragé (shipwrecked person), faire naufrage (be shipwrecked), être naufragé (be shipwrecked). (various references) | |
German | schiffbrüchig. (various references) | |
Greek | ναυαγόσ (castaway), ναυαγισμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajótörést szenved (to be shipwrecked, to be wrecked, to get cast away, to wreck, wreck). (various references) | |
Italian | naufrago (castaway, shipwreck victim, shipwrecked person). (various references) | |
Manx | mooirchoorit (wrecked), lhongvrisht (wreck), caillt (defunct, irrecoverable, lost), brisht (bankrupt, breached, broke, bust, cracked, deposed, deprived, discontinuous, fragmentary, insolvent, ruined, ruptured, smashed, stony-broke, wrecked). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipwreckedshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | náufrago (castaway). (various references) | |
Romanian | naufragiat (by the board, castaway, stranded, wrecked). (various references) | |
Russian | потерпевший кораблекрушение (wrecked). (various references) | |
Spanish | náufrago (castaway). (various references) | |
Swedish | skeppsbruten (castaway, wrecked), förlist. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-k-p-r-s-w" | |
-2 letters: deciphers, richweeds, shipwreck, whickered, whiskered, whispered. | |
-3 letters: cepheids, ciphered, decipher, perished, pickeers, precised, richweed, shrewdie, shrieked, whickers, wickeder. | |
-4 letters: cepheid, ceriphs, cheders, chewers, chewier, chiders, chirked, chirped, ciphers, crisped, deckers, decries, dehisce, deicers, dickers, herdics, peckers, peckier, peckish, perched, perches, perkish, peskier, pickeer, pickers, piecers, pierced, pierces, precise, preside, pricked, rechews, recipes, screwed. | |
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