despair vs shipwreck

despair

noun
  • Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. 

  • That which causes despair. 

  • That which is despaired of. 

verb
  • To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. 

  • To cause to despair. 

shipwreck

noun
  • destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss 

  • An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 

  • A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. 

verb
  • To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap. 

How often have the words despair and shipwreck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )