verb
1.
to destroy, disable, or seriously damage a ship (as by running aground or causing to founder)
the typhoon shipwrecked the entire fishing fleet
Synonyms: beach, cast away, pile up, strand, wreck
Related Word: break up; scuttle; founder; capsize; go down, sink
Idioms: go aground, go to the bottom ( or Davy Jones's locker), run on the rocks
2.
Synonyms: ruin 2, bankrupt, dilapidate, do in, wreck