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noun

Definition of shipwreckingnext
as in wrecking
the destruction or loss of a ship the shipwrecking of the Titanic by an iceberg ranks as one of the greatest disasters in the annals of the sea

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shipwrecking

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verb

present participle of shipwreck
as in scuttling
to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks

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  1. wrecking
  2. wreck
  3. shipwreck
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  • But when this tournament comes to an end, the Bulls either have to change course or risk wrecking their plans completely.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But his vision of wrecking Israel with the help of Iran and other proxy forces backfired badly.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Noun
  • Notre-Dame was also a wreck during the 19th century when a young French architect named Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was hired to save it from ruin.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After a series of mishaps and a wreck off Cape Breton, however, Richard W. Haines, an American businessman, bought the ship, made significant repairs and renamed it the Mary Celeste.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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  • What’s lost is the heat and swashbuckling adventure of the original tale, a humanist turn that finds Odysseus at the end of his mortal coil, Fiennes at first haggard, awash naked on the shores of Ithaca after a shipwreck has left him unmoored and divorced from his former kingdom.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The musical, about a 19th-century shipwreck and its aftermath, explores the lengths to which human beings will go in order to survive.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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