Usually means: Sunken vessel lost at sea.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shipwreck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shipwreck: Merriam-Webster
  3. shipwreck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shipwreck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shipwreck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shipwreck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shipwreck, shipwreck: Wordnik
  8. shipwreck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shipwreck: Wiktionary
  10. shipwreck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shipwreck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shipwreck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shipwreck: Dictionary.com
  14. shipwreck (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shipwreck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shipwreck (G.I. Joe), Shipwreck (book), Shipwreck (film), Shipwreck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shipwreck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shipwreck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shipwreck: Rhymezone
  20. shipwreck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shipwreck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shipwreck: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shipwreck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shipwreck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Shipwreck: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shipwreck: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shipwreck: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shipwrecked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
noun:  (figurative) destruction; disaster; failure; ruin; irretrievable loss
verb:  To wreck a boat through a collision or other mishap.

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