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shipwrecked

shipwrecked is the simple past and past participle of shipwreck.

Meaning of shipwreck

Verb

shipwreck (third-person singular simple present shipwrecks, present participle shipwrecking, simple past and past participle shipwrecked)

  1. To wreck a boat through a collision or other mishap.

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Adjective

shipwrecked (not comparable)

  1. Stranded as a result of a shipwreck.
    • I ſtand aboue thee, and as from a rocke / VVhoſe eminence outſvvelles the raging flood, / See thy hopes ſhip vvrackt: […]1610, Iohn [i.e., John] Mason, The Turke. A Worthie Tragedie. […], London: […] E[dward] A[llde] for Iohn Busbie […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, verso

Words formed from shipwrecked

Questions about shipwrecked

What does shipwrecked mean?
Shipwrecked means stranded as a result of a shipwreck.
What is shipwrecked the simple past and past participle of?
Shipwrecked is the simple past and past participle of shipwreck.
What part of speech is shipwrecked?
Shipwrecked is an adjective.

Words near shipwrecked in the dictionary

  1. shipwrack
  2. shipwracke
  3. shipwrackes
  4. shipwracks
  5. shipwreck
  6. shipwrecked
  7. shipwreckee
  8. shipwreckees
  9. shipwrecker
  10. shipwreckers
  11. shipwrecking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shipwrecked (page history and authors); shipwreck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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