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shipwrecking

shipwrecking is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about shipwrecking

What is shipwrecking the present participle and gerund of?
Shipwrecking is the present participle and gerund of shipwreck.

Words near shipwrecking in the dictionary

  1. shipwrecked
  2. shipwreckee
  3. shipwreckees
  4. shipwrecker
  5. shipwreckers
  6. shipwrecking
  7. shipwrecks
  8. shipwrecky
  9. shipwright
  10. shipwrightery
  11. shipwrighting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shipwrecking (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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