- shipwreck (n.)
- mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant "things cast up from a shipwreck" (c.1100). The earlier word for "shipwreck" in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke, from Old English scipbryce.
- shipwreck (v.)
- 1580s, from shipwreck (n.). Related: Shipwrecked.