shipwrecking – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
shipwreck
v.
destroy or sink a ship; be sunk, be destroyed (of a ship); shatter, destroy, ruin
Shipwrecking
Shipwrecking is the event that caused the
wreck, such as the striking of something that causes the ship to sink, the stranding of the ship on rocks, land or shoal, poor maintenance, or the destruction of the ship at sea by violent weather.
shipwreck
Noun
1. a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
(hypernym) ship
2. an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance"
(hypernym) ruin, ruination
3. an accident that destroys a ship at sea
(synonym) wreck
(hypernym) accident
(hyponym) capsizing
Verb
1. ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"
(hypernym) ruin
2. suffer failure, as in some enterprise
(hypernym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
3. cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
(hypernym) subject
(classification) water travel, seafaring
4. destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"
(hypernym) destroy, ruin
(derivation) wreck
Shipwrecking
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Shipwreck
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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SHIPWRECKING
NAUFRAGANDO. FACENDO NAUFRAGARE. FACENDO FALLIRE
