| run aground | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. ground, run aground, strand | bring to the ground.; "the storm grounded the ship" |
| ~ run aground, ground | hit or reach the ground. |
| ~ land | bring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| v. (motion) | 2. ground, run aground | hit or reach the ground. |
| ~ arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make | reach a destination, either real or abstract.; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
| shipwreck | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. shipwreck | a wrecked ship (or a part of one). |
| ~ ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| n. (event) | 2. shipwreck | an irretrievable loss.; "that was the shipwreck of their romance" |
| ~ ruination, ruin | an event that results in destruction. |
| n. (event) | 3. shipwreck, wreck | an accident that destroys a ship at sea. |
| ~ accident | an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury. |
| ~ capsizing | (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water. |
| v. (social) | 4. shipwreck | ruin utterly.; "You have shipwrecked my career" |
| ~ ruin | destroy or cause to fail.; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election" |
| v. (social) | 5. shipwreck | suffer failure, as in some enterprise. |
| ~ go wrong, miscarry, fail | be unsuccessful.; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
| v. (perception) | 6. shipwreck | cause to experience shipwreck.; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea" |
| ~ water travel, seafaring | travel by water. |
| ~ subject | cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to.; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation" |
| v. (contact) | 7. shipwreck | destroy a ship.; "The vessel was shipwrecked" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
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