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Wrecked vs Castaway - What's the difference?

wrecked | castaway |

As adjectives the difference between wrecked and castaway

is that wrecked is destroyed in an accident etc while castaway is cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

As a verb wrecked

is (wreck).

As a noun castaway is

(nautical) a shipwrecked sailor.

wrecked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • destroyed in an accident etc
  • (slang) drunk
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (wreck)
  • castaway

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
  • After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
  • Shipwrecked.
  • The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
  • Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .
  • A discarded person or thing.
  • This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
  • An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
  • These homeless people are society's castaways .

    Synonyms

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