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      shipwrecks
      noun
      an accident that destroys a ship at sea
      an irretrievable loss
      a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
      verb
      destroy a ship
      cause to experience shipwreck
      suffer failure, as in some enterprise
      ruin utterly
      Roots
      scipship- · Old English · ship, vesselwrek-wreck · Old Norse · drive, wreck
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