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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..

Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel..

Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked..

Naufrage :: Naufrage (n.) Shipwreck; ruin.

Wreckful :: Wreckful (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.

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

Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.

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..

Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.

Wrecking :: Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v..

Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.

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..

Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..

Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck..

Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..

Shipwrecking :: Shipwrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shipwrec.

Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like..

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