| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in military manner |
Synonyms: |
ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, finish off, halt, hinder, impede, lick, mow down, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, prevail over, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, roll back, rout, route, sack, scatter, shipwreck, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, torpedo, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
Antonyms: |
give up, lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | hulk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large piece, lump; remains |
Synonyms: |
blob, body, bulk, chunk, clod, clump, frame, hull, hunk, mass, ruins, shambles, shell, shipwreck, skeleton, wreck |
Antonyms: |
bit |
| Main Entry: | sink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in, go under |
Synonyms: |
bore, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, couch, decline, demit, depress, descend, dig, dip, disappear, drill, drive, droop, drop, drown, ebb, engulf, excavate, fall, flounder, force down, founder, go down, go to the bottom, immerse, lay, let down, lower, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down, ram, regress, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slope, slump, stab, stick, stoop, submerge, subside, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wreck |
Antonyms: |
float, rise |
| Main Entry: | wreck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe damage or severely damaged goods |
Synonyms: |
collapse, crash, crate, debacle, debris, derelict, destruction, devastation, disruption, fender bender, heap*, hulk, jalopy, junk*, junker, litter, mess, pile-up, rear-ender, relic, ruin, ruins, shipwreck, smashup, total*, waste, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
creation |
| Main Entry: | wreck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
Synonyms: |
bash, batter, beach, break, capsize, crack up, crash, cripple, dash, decimate, demolish, devastate, dilapidate, disable, do in, efface, founder, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mess up*, pile up, put out of commission, ravage, raze, run aground, sabotage, scuttle, shatter, shipwreck, sink, smash, smash up, spoil, strand, subvert, take apart, take out, tear up, torpedo, total*, trash*, undermine, vandalize, wrack up, wrack |
Antonyms: |
build, create, repair |
| Main Entry: | castaway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shipwrecked person |
Synonyms: |
derelict, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, pariah, renegade, reprobate, shipwreck, waif |
| Main Entry: | submerse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sink |
Synonyms: |
bore*, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, couch, decline, demit, depress, descend, dig*, dip, disappear, drill, drive, droop, drop*, drown, ebb, engulf, excavate, fall, flounder, force down, founder, go down, go to the bottom, immerse, lay, let down, lower, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down*, ram, regress, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slope, slump, stab, stick*, stoop, submerge, subside, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wreck |