2. Adjective. Stranded as a result of a shipwreck. ¹
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Definition of Shipwrecked
1. shipwreck [v] - See also: shipwreck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipwrecked
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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