Definition of Shipwrecked

1. Verb. (past of shipwreck) ¹

2. Adjective. Stranded as a result of a shipwreck. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shipwrecked

1. shipwreck [v] - See also: shipwreck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipwrecked

ships
shipsful
shipshape
shipshape and Bristol fashion
shipside
shipsides
shipward
shipwards
shipway
shipways
shipwide
shipworm
shipworms
shipwreck
shipwreck survivor
shipwrecked
shipwreckee
shipwreckees
shipwrecking
shipwrecks
shipwrecky
shipwright
shipwrights
shipyard
shipyards
shiquolts
shir
shiralee
shiralees
shiranui-gata

Literary usage of Shipwrecked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"... of men received by neutral men-of-war) that men brought in by a neutral merchantman need not be detained. (3) Shipwrecked soldiers or sailors may, ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott (1920)
"(Relief to the wounded and shipwrecked in maritime war.) As no member requests the floor regarding Article 7, the PRESIDENT declares that the principle ..."

3. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1855)
"OF Shipwrecked VESSELS ON THE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES. The following act passed at the second session of the Thirty-Third Congress, was approved ..."

4. International Law Documents by Naval War College (U.S.) (1904)
"HOSPITAL SHIPS—THE Shipwrecked, SICK, AND WOUNDED. Article 21. Military hospital ships—that is to say, vessels constructed or fitted out by the belligerent ..."

5. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"... CHAPTER I. Shipwrecked AND ALONE. storm, which had lasted for six long and terrible -*- days, appeared on the seventh to redouble its fury. ..."

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