单词 | make shipwreck |
释义 | > as lemmasto make shipwreck a. Destruction or loss of a ship by its being sunk or broken up by the violence of the sea, or by its striking or stranding upon a rock or shoal. †to make shipwreck (cf. Latin naufragium facere, French faire naufrage): see make v.1 49. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun] shipbrechea1067 ship-breaking1398 ship-brechinga1400 shipwreckc1450 wreck1463 wrake1513 wrack1579 naufrage1589 wrecking1775 c1450 Mirk's Festial 70 I haue..þryse ben yn schipwrak on þe see. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. xi. 25 I suffred thryse ship~wracke. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Naufragium Pati naufragium, to haue shipwrecke. 1589 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations i. 169 If by any casualtie their shippes shall bee driuen on shoare in perill of shipwracke. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iv. i. 277 A ship that is voide of a Pilot, must needs impinge vpon the next rock or sands, and suffer shipwrack. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 72 Such Ships and Goods as shall be cast ashore by Shipwrack. c1720 J. Swift Abstr. Hist. Eng. ann. 1135 Having..very narrowly escaped shipwreck in his passage from Normandy into England. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 572/1 The wants of sailors and others saved from shipwreck. to make shipwreck 3. figurative. Destruction, total loss or ruin: often with literal phraseology retained. †to make shipwreck: to come to destruction. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] end832 bale-sithea1000 wrakea1275 wonderc1275 destroyingc1300 destruction1340 contritionc1384 stroying1396 undoing1398 tininga1400 ruinc1425 fatec1430 fordoingc1450 perishing?1523 shipwreck1526 pernicion?1530 ruining1562 ruinating1587 defeasance1590 defeature1592 breakneck1598 ruination1599 defeat1600 doom1609 planet-striking1611 mismaking1615 rasurea1616 destructa1638 perition1640 interemption1656 smashing1821 degrowth1876 uncreation1884 creative destruction1927 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end losec888 fallOE forlesea1225 perishc1275 spilla1300 to go to wreche13.. to go to the gatec1330 to go to lostc1374 miscarryc1387 quenchc1390 to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400 mischieve?a1400 tinea1400 to go to the devilc1405 bursta1450 untwindc1460 to make shipwreck1526 to go to (the) pot1531 to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547 wrake1570 wracka1586 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 to lie in the dusta1591 mischief1598 to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599 shipwreck1607 suffera1616 unravel1643 to fall off1684 tip (over) the perch1699 to do away with1769 to go to the dickens1833 collapse1838 to come (also go) a mucker1851 mucker1862 to go up1864 to go to squash1889 to go (to) stramash1910 to go for a burton1941 to meet one's Makera1978 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. i. 19 Havynge fayth and good conscience, which some have put awaye from them, and as concernynge fayth have made shipwracke. 1549 T. Solme in H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie To Rdr. sig. Aiiv After so manifold and daungerous shyp wrackes of religion,..wheras the ambitious and blynde prelates..ruleth the sterne. 1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie iv. 144 A generall shipwrake of the Popes uniuersall power. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. vii. 8 So am I driuen by breath of her Renowne, Either to suffer Shipwracke, or arriue Where I may haue fruition of her Loue. View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 41 This shipwracke, which Adam brought vpon himselfe, and chiefly his posterity. 1641 F. Quarles Enchyridion (1654) ii. xxxii. I 2 Let the Shipwrack of his Understanding be a Sea-mark to thy Passion. 1655 Bp. J. Taylor Guide Devot. (1719) 120 The only Plank left me in the Shipwrack of my Soul. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 355 The Shipwreck of our Fortunes. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet II. xi. 102 The..ability with which..he..preserved the scarcely launched empire of Islam from perfect shipwreck. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxii. 199 Agrippina was..maddened by the shipwreck of her ambition. 1892 Speaker 3 Sept. 289/1 Boys with an unsullied heart, and bright wits like his, have come miserably to ship~wreck before now. < as lemmas |
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