Usually means: Destruction of a ship at sea.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. shipwrecking: Merriam-Webster
  2. shipwrecking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shipwrecking: Vocabulary.com
  4. shipwrecking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. shipwrecking: Wiktionary
  6. shipwrecking: Dictionary.com
  7. shipwrecking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Shipwrecking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Shipwrecking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Shipwrecking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. shipwrecking: FreeDictionary.org
  12. shipwrecking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shipwrecking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shipwrecking: Encyclopedia

(Note: See shipwreck as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Shipwrecking)

noun:  an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance, resulting in a lack of seaworthiness; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather.


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