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Adjective shipwrecked has 2 senses

castaway, shipwrecked - suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island"
Antonym: fortunate (indirect, via unfortunate)
shipwrecked - aground as a consequence of a shipwreck
Antonyms: sunken, submerged (indirect, via afloat, aground)
Antonym: afloat (indirect, via aground, sunken)

Verb shipwreck has 4 senses

shipwreck - ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"
--₁ is one way to ruin

Derived form: noun shipwreck₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
shipwreck - suffer failure, as in some enterprise
--₂ is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry

Derived form: noun shipwreck₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
shipwreck - cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
--₃ is one way to subject

Derived form: noun shipwreck₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
shipwreck - destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"
--₄ is one way to destroy, ruin

Derived forms: noun shipwreck₃, noun shipwreck₁
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something