shipwreck

1. 1.

   a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

   Broadership
2. 2.

   an irretrievable loss

   “that was the shipwreck of their romance”

   Broaderruin
3. 3.

   an accident that destroys a ship at sea

   Synonymswreck

   Broaderaccident

   Narrowercapsizing

Other forms of shipwreck

plural

shipwrecks·

past tense

shipwrecked·

present participle

shipwrecking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shipwreck

What does shipwreck mean?

shipwreck means "ruin utterly". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shipwreck?

shipwreck has 2 syllables: ship-wreck. The stress falls on "ship". In IPA it is /ˈʃɪpɹɛk/.

What is another word for shipwreck?

Close synonyms include wreck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shipwreck a common word?

shipwreck is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.