(n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
(n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
(n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
(v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
(v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
Example Sentences:
(1) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(2) On Thursday, EU leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels in the wake of a shipwreck off Libya last weekend that authorities believe may have killed more than 800 migrants .
(3) Video: Interview with the man who found the wing fragment The on 19 December 2015, an “anomalous sonar contact” was identified by the JACC, with analysis suggesting the object was likely to be man-made, probably a shipwreck.
(4) These shipwrecks cannot be therefore considered mere ‘incidents’.
(5) A spokesperson for the organiation in Rome, Flavio Di Giacomo, said the number of shipwrecks reflected the poor state of the boats used by the refugees and the current harsh weather conditions at sea.
(6) Visiting a shipwreck in Stockholm: history, maths, science, English and geography.
(7) Among the events planned is a mass at a church where many of the survivors were taken for shelter on the night of the shipwreck.
(8) I find out about the shipwrecks through different mediums.
(9) At the time of the shipwreck, the majority of the women and children were in the hold to protect them from cold,” said Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the IOM.
(10) "It has disturbed the community divided it a bit," she said, explaining that there is a feeling among islanders outside of the port that they have lost out in the interest the shipwreck has brought.
(11) There are rumours of shipwrecks buried hundreds of metres below where I was pitched, and tales of Vikings turning their ships in a nearby bay to redouble their efforts at invading Britain.
(12) Ali added that a close friend had died in a shipwreck while trying to reach Australia three years ago.
(13) It has been suggested that Shakespeare's lifelong concern with themes of exile and separation, from the shipwreck that splits open The Comedy of Errors to the relentless journeying that propels the final romances, is a sign of his remarkable powers of empathy, even, as the critic Northrop Frye repeatedly argued, a mythic image of our voyage through life.
(14) Italy’s prime minister called for an emergency European summit this week to deal with the deepening migrant crisis off its southern coast after as many as 950 men, women and children were feared to have drowned in a Mediterranean shipwreck.
(15) The RSC's mini-season of three "shipwreck plays" – Comedy of Errors , Twelfth Night and The Tempest – illuminates this most potent of Shakespearean themes .
(16) Ocean in Google Earth will let users dive below the surface of the water to examine wildlife, mountains and shipwrecks in this murky world.
(17) Lara is already going through a lot – shipwreck, major injury, a friend's kidnapping, the threat of death – and adding sexual assault to the mix might just be over-egging the pudding.
(18) Next week, I get to interview a real shipwreck survivor who covered thousands of miles singlehanded, only to be turned over by a giant wave on his way home.
(19) In 1769, the first civilian rescue society was established to look after shipwrecked persons.
(20) Alongside survivors of the shipwreck and those who assisted the rescue operation, the victims' relatives are taking part in a series of commemorative events which will culminate on Sunday evening in a minute's silence marking the exact time the 114,500-tonne ship crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Wreck
Definition:
(v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
(v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
(v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
(v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
(v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
(v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
(v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
(v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
(v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
(v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
(v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(3) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
(4) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
(5) The optimism is based on the ability of people, in the end, to see sense.” Shorten said the budget included large elements that the Labor party under his leadership could never support in the parliament, including pricing Australian children out of university and “wrecking Medicare”.
(6) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
(7) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(8) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
(9) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
(10) The government is also correct to say the current system is too complex; 1,300 pages of planning law are being used (understandably) by anyone who thinks a development project would wreck their view and damage the value of their house.
(11) We can do that but we can wreck the inquiry in the process,” the Conservative MP told Today.
(12) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
(13) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
(14) The mine will destroy the forests on which the Dongria Kondh depend and wreck the lives of thousands of other Kondh tribal people living in the area."
(15) This is a gross injustice and it has wrecked my life.
(16) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(17) A healthy Neftali Feliz takes over the closer duties from Joe Nathan in Ron Washington’s pitching staff, one that was wrecked by injuries in 2013, something that has to change this time out.
(18) The bad press and everything that’s happened – it’s wrecked my life to a certain extent.
(19) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
(20) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.