Shipwreck (Verb)
Meaning 1
Suffer failure, as in some enterprise.
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The inexperienced entrepreneur's dream of starting a successful business ended in disaster and shipwreck after just six months of operation.
- The project shipwrecked due to a lack of financial support from investors and the team's inability to overcome technical difficulties.
- Her hopes of becoming a famous painter shipwrecked on the harsh realities of the art world and the intense competition she faced.
- The new restaurant shipwrecked after a string of negative reviews and the owner's failure to adapt to changing consumer tastes.
- Their plans for expansion shipwrecked when the economic downturn hit and the company was left struggling to stay afloat.
Hypernyms
Related Words
Meaning 2
Ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Related Words
Meaning 3
Destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Hypernyms
Related Words
Meaning 4
Cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.