to shipwreck

Examples

• All

• You know, the fact is, from the minute we're born, we're shipwrecked.

  Fiction book (1992)

• We might as well be shipwrecked.

  The New World (2005)

• Well, then you shipwreck them and it turns out that they're not quite so happy with it.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• From the moment we're born, we're shipwrecked struggling between hope and despair.

  City of Joy (1992)

• This modern light is piteous shearing and estranging clarity, lest each one shipwreck on one's self.

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. -- Albert Einstein

  Blog text (16)

• So I sat there, childishly blubbering into the fabric, lost and generous at last with my pain, shipwrecking myself over and over against my old memory of love.

  Fiction book (1996)

• According to Antoninus, friars who believed that the cura monialium shipwrecked the order in fact undermined the foundations of their religious life.

  Academic text (2018)

• When she plans to introduce the shipwrecked and penniless Roderick to a wealthy family in hopes of his being hired as a footman, she warns him to disguise his true past, for no one will hire a fallen gentleman as a domestic.

  Academic text (1990)

• His careless decisions could shipwreck his entire career if he is not careful.

Synonyms

R

to ruin

vsto shipwreck

∞ 2.0

Destroy or badly damage something so it cannot be used

is used mainly for total failure in a figurative area like plans or reputation

T

to torpedo their chances

vsto shipwreck

7.9

To ruin their chances of success

refers to total failure of a plan, career, or reputation rather than lost chances

S

to sink faster than the Titanic

vsto shipwreck

• Informal

9.2

To fail very quickly and completely with no chance to get better

describes complete ruin or failure without implying rapid or dramatic timing

Antonyms

P

to prosper

88 3.7

To become successful or grow well, often by making money

Compounds

S

shipwreck survivor

4.1

A person who is alive after their ship sinks

How Ruined

to destroy

∞ 1.0

to shipwreck

1 6.1

to ruin

∞ 2.0

to damage

885 1.4

to harm

738 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology