English to afrikaans meaning of

shipwreck

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "skeepswrak" is die vernietiging of verlies van 'n skip, tipies deur te sink of in 'n watermassa gestrand te word. Dit kan ook verwys na die oorblyfsels van 'n skip wat vernietig is of op see verlore geraak het. Die term kan ook metafories gebruik word om 'n persoon of ding te beskryf wat verwoes of vernietig is, dikwels as gevolg van 'n mislukking of katastrofe.

Sentence Examples

  1. It was filled with books on shipbuilding, with a giant atlas and novels of exploration and shipwreck and discovery.
  2. It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such confusion that before I came to the place where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I came to land the string, as I conjecture, breaking by some accident which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost at sea.
  3. In his mind, he had attributed the feeble efforts from the early morning to simple exhaustion from the shipwreck.
  4. Everyone knew they were the descendants of the Bahawre shipwreck.
  5. Facing away from the shipwreck and the growing pile of cargo on the beach awaited a scene of stunning beauty.
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