shipwreck

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The destruction of a ship, as by storm or collision.
2. n. The remains of a wrecked ship.
3. n. A complete failure or ruin.
4. v. Nautical To cause a ship to be destroyed, as by storm or collision.
5. v. Nautical To cause (a passenger or sailor on a ship) to suffer shipwreck.
6. v. To ruin utterly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The destruction or loss of a vessel by foundering at sea, by striking on a rock or shoal, or the like; the wreck of a ship.
2. n. Total failure; destruction; ruin.
3. n. Shattered remains, as of a vessel which has been wrecked; wreck; wreckage.
4. To wreck; subject to the perils and distress of shipwreck.
5. To wreck; ruin; destroy.

Wiktionary

1. n. A boat that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.
2. n. An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
3. v. To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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.
2. n. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
3. n. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
4. v. 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.
5. v. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an accident that destroys a ship at sea
2. v. cause to experience shipwreck
3. n. an irretrievable loss
4. v. destroy a ship
5. v. suffer failure, as in some enterprise
6. v. ruin utterly
7. n. a wrecked ship (or a part of one)