shipwrecked

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  1. noun The destruction of a ship, as by storm or collision.
  2. noun The remains of a wrecked ship.
  3. noun A complete failure or ruin.
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  • All the information I could elicit from the girls that evening was the fact that they had been shipwrecked, and had already been captive among the blacks for three and a half months. —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • She has since been shipwrecked, and her life has been from its commencement so fertile in remarkable incidents that in a romance they would appear improbable. —  Life of Lord Byron
  • People said they liked the way the cheeks and noses of the Apostles were colored; and when Father Gonzales brought in a sailor who had been shipwrecked, and the sailorman left ten pesetas for a plaster-of-Paris ship to be placed as a votive offering in the Chapel of Saint Dominic, their cup was full. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • Soon after leaving London Veracini was shipwrecked, and lost his two Stainer violins, which he stated were the best in the world. —  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
  • She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.” —  Three Years in Europe
 

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