Crossword-Solution: SHIPWRECK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shipwreck | 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. |
| Shipwreck | n. | A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. |
| Shipwreck | n. | Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss. |
| Shipwreck | 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. |
| Shipwreck | 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. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SHIPWRECK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "The Tempest" event | 1 answer |
| Crusoe's misfortune | 1 answer |
| Event in "The Tempest." | 1 answer |
| Fate of the Titanic | 1 answer |
| Marine salvage crew's job | 1 answer |
| Rowed-to ruin? | 1 answer |
| destruction of a ship through storm or collision | 1 answer |
| sea accident | 1 answer |
| Ruin utterly | 4 answers |
| AN EVENT RESULTING IN GREAT LOSS AND MISFORTUNE | 12 answers |
| dilapidate | 42 answers |
| ruins | 44 answers |
| Beach | 51 answers |
| Ruin | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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Sentences with SHIPWRECK (5)
The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury A PHILOSOPHER witnessed from the shore the shipwreck of a vessel, of which the crew and passengers were all drowned.
They spoke with far more interest and unction of their morning’s breakfast, or yesterday’s, today’s, or tomorrow’s dinner, than of the shipwreck of forty or fifty years ago, and all the world’s wonders which they had witnessed with their youthful eyes.
Five minutes afterwards, if you insist upon an explanation, you will have understood that these arrangements are of capital importance; and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic as they must appear, you might have charged your conscience with my death or the shipwreck of my reason.
But I fear me we cannot build our hopes upon the shipwreck of that cunning devil, and of all his murderous plans.
This being, made only for happiness, and heretofore so miserably failing to be happy,—his tendencies so hideously thwarted, that, some unknown time ago, the delicate springs of his character, never morally or intellectually strong, had given way, and he was now imbecile,—this poor, forlorn voyager from the Islands of the Blest, in a frail bark, on a tempestuous sea, had been flung, by the last mountain-wave of his shipwreck, into a quiet harbor.
Quotes with SHIPWRECK (3)
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2011).