1. shipwreck - Noun
2. shipwreck - Verb
The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAccordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. Ambrose
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant
You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time. Icelandic Proverb
No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck. German Proverb
Let another's shipwreck be your sea-mark. Danish Proverb