naufragate

naufragate verb: to wreck (something).

Verb

naufragate (third-person singular simple present naufragates, present participle naufragating, simple past and past participle naufragated)

(ergative, obsolete, rare) To wreck (something).
- All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity, constancy, and activity, in our several stations, with our lives and fortunes, to prosecute and accomplish, to our powers, by all just and legal wayes, with what ever else may conduce to the Peace, Safety, Unitie...1660, Thomas Fuller, A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace, […] John Williams […], page 48
- […] the reſtoring of collapſed Honour to the Nations, and of juſt Rights to all orders therein; ( which have been ſo many years obſtruded) the reviving of Trade, the eaſing of Preſſures,the reducing of theſe wofully toſſed and naufragated Kingdoms unto Calmneſs and Serenity again, […]1660, Edward Reynolds, The Meanes and Method of Healing in the Church, […] Tho. Ratcliffe, for George Thomason, page 24

third-person singular present	naufragates
present participle	naufragating
past participle	naufragated
past	naufragated

Borrowed from Latin naufragātus, perfect passive participle of naufragō (“to become shipwrecked”).

What does naufragate mean?: Naufragate means to wreck (something).
What part of speech is naufragate?: Naufragate is a verb.
What is the past tense of naufragate?: The past tense of naufragate is naufragated.

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