From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe shipwreckedbe shipwreckedTTWACCIDENTif someone is shipwrecked, they are in a boat or ship when it is destroyed in an accident Beatty was shipwrecked off the coast of Africa. → shipwreck
Examples from the Corpus
be shipwrecked• Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given.• Prospero used his powers to cause the passengers to be shipwrecked, and secured the ship safely in the harbor.• The characters in the series were shipwrecked on a desert island. 