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  • verb Present participle of shipwreck.

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Examples

  • If there is an outbreak of compulsive shipwrecking and someone said that the shipwreckers should be taught to stay away from ships, you would not accuse them of endangering lives because they did not consider it wise to encourage them to carry inflatables with them when puncturing the hull.

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  • Did the concept of shipwrecking surprise you or did you already know about wrecks off the Cornish Coast?

    The Queen of Gothic Strikes Again! Stephanie 2008

  • Did the concept of shipwrecking surprise you or did you already know about wrecks off the Cornish Coast?

    Archive 2008-07-01 Stephanie 2008

  • Did the concept of shipwrecking surprise you or did you already know about wrecks off the Cornish Coast?

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  • “Integral” is a more sober term than “holistic,” more imbued with a sense of true inclusiveness, but nevertheless is in growing danger of shipwrecking itself on overly intellectual reefs, especially as it busies itself theorizing about its theorizing.

    Robert Masters: What Is Integral? William Harryman 2007

  • In 1830 going from Caracas to Bogota was just a major endeavor, fraught with all sorts of perils that included shipwrecking in the Caribbean, drowning in the Magdalena, banditry everywhere.

    In praise of parliamentary systems: how to get rid of Latin American messianic leaders 2006

  • In 1830 going from Caracas to Bogota was just a major endeavor, fraught with all sorts of perils that included shipwrecking in the Caribbean, drowning in the Magdalena, banditry everywhere.

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  • And now here he was, by all accounts, shipwrecking himself again, and on home ground, too.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • He was in danger of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity.

    Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 Unknown

  • It's all kivered over with water at high tide, but at half tide it begins to show its nose, an at low tide you see as pooty a shoal for shipwrecking as you may want; rayther low with pleasant jagged rocks at the nothe-east side, an about a hundred yards or so in extent.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

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