Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (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..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) 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..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) 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; as, to shipwreck a business..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on..
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like..
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West..
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.