1. (

• shipwreck

) ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career" ;

2. (

• shipwreck ,

) suffer failure, as in some enterprise ;

3. (

• shipwreck

) cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea" ;

4. (

• shipwreck

) destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked" ;