shipwreck
noun
the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
had shipwrecked
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past perfectof shipwreck.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But it was part of my just punishment that, when I most needed help, you should be far abroad searching for the very island on which I had shipwrecked all.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She had shipwrecked her own happiness in rejecting Godfrey Holmes; but it seemed to her to be the proper thing that a well-behaved young lady should shipwreck her own happiness.
From The Mistletoe Bough by Anthony Trollope
She said to herself that she had shipwrecked her husband once by putting in her oar, and she was not going to do it again.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells
Months of close contact teach character, if character has interest; and to Adams the Cameron type had keen interest, ever since it had shipwrecked his career in the person of President Grant.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Never had shipwrecked mariner come to safer harbor than she.
From A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine
