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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.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on..

Disastrous :: Disastrous (a.) Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking..

Disasterly :: Disasterly (adv.) Disastrously.

Croak :: Croak (v. t.) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster..

Disaster :: Disaster (n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent..

Calamity :: Calamity (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals..

Rock :: Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death..

Disaster :: Disaster (v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them..

Succession :: Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters..

Misfortune :: Misfortune (n.) Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

Fatal :: Fatal (a.) Foreboding death or great disaster.

Disaster :: Disaster (n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap..

Disaster :: Disaster (v. t.) To bring harm upon; to injure.

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