Sinking
Wreck
Wreck noun - The destruction or loss of a ship.
Usage example: the wreck cost the insurance company millions of dollars
Sinking and wreck are semantically related in destruction topic. Sometimes you can use "Sinking" instead a noun "Wreck".
Both words in one sentence
- And as one Let's Player discovered in that same game, be careful at what angle you shoot down airplanes...or their crashing, flaming wreck can slam directly into you, sinking you instantly.
- In Wreck-It Ralph, Felix and Calhoun are sinking in Nesquik-sand and their only hope of escape is to attract vines of Laffy Taffy towards them so they can climb out.
Source: Hit Me, Dammit! -
Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," about the real-life sinking of the titular ship on Lake Superior, killing all twenty-nine crew members, in 1975.
Source: Kill 'em All
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