Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shipwreck

4 senses of shipwreck

Sense 1
shipwreck -- (ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career")
       => ruin -- (destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election")

Sense 2
shipwreck -- (suffer failure, as in some enterprise)
       => fail, go wrong, miscarry -- (be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably")

Sense 3
shipwreck -- (cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea")
       => subject -- (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation")

Sense 4
shipwreck -- (destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked")
       => destroy, ruin -- (destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up")