shipwreck

Noun

• an accident that destroys a ship at sea

• an irretrievable loss
  • that was the shipwreck of their romance
    

• a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

Verb

• destroy a ship
  • The vessel was shipwrecked
    

• cause to experience shipwreck
  • They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea
    

• suffer failure, as in some enterprise

• ruin utterly
  • You have shipwrecked my career