ruin

n

1. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, destruction; dilapidation, ruination, wreck, wreckage, wrack, wrack and ruin; disruption, upheaval; crash, collision, crack-up.

2. overthrow, overturn, subversion, suppression, subdual, conquest; defeat, Waterloo, discomfiture, vanquishment, subjugation.

3. deterioration, decay, waste, breakdown, disintegration, depletion, dissipation, dispersion; collapse, breakup, disorganization, dissolution, undoing, debacle, failure, fiasco.

4. downfall, fall, nemesis, labefaction; failing, shortcoming, flaw, defect; curse, damnation, perdition, doom, fate, destiny, lot.

5. corruption, depravation, perversion, demoralization, vitiation; debasement, degradation; contamination, taint, poison, pollution, defilement; injury, damage, spoilage; scar, defacement, blemish.

6. distress, calamity, affliction, infliction, adversity, hardship, scourge; misfortune, setback, reversal, blow, disaster, catastrophe, cataclysm, accident; straits, difficulty, necessity.

7. loss, privation, deprivation, bereavement; poverty, impoverishment, want, destitution, neediness; im-pecuniosity, pennilessness, penury, indigence; beggary, mendicity, mendicancy; pauperage, pauperdom; bankruptcy, insolvency; wolf at the door, low water.

8. ruins remains, remnants, remainders; wreckage, debris, detritus; refuse, rubbish, waste; husks, chaff; vestige, trace, shadow; relics, reliquiae, fossil.

v

9. devastate, demolish, desolate, lay waste, Dial. ruinate; ravage, work havoc upon, wreak havoc on, gut, bring to ruin, lay in ruins; wreck, Sl. total, knock to pieces, dash to pieces, reduce to nothing; pulverize, crush, smash, squelch, Sl. smush, mash; crash, shatter, blast, blow up, batter, break; fracture, splinter, tear, crack, split, rend, tear apart, wrench apart; mutilate, mangle, maim, make mincemeat of; despoil, spoliate, rob, plunder, pillage, sack, ransack; vandalize, waste, Sl. trash; undo, unmake, unbuild, dismantle, disassemble, take apart.

10. raze, tear down, pull down, take down, bring down, break down, throw down, beat down, batten down; cast down, knock down, fling down, hurl down, precipitate, Inf. spill, tumble, topple; fell, lay level, prostrate, level, floor, bulldoze, flatten; cut down, chop down, hew down, mow down.

11. quash, crush, subdue, quell, stifle, suppress, squelch, vanquish, squash; cut short, shoot down, Inf. put the kibosh on, Inf. cook one's goose, nip, nip in the bud, scuttle; terminate, check, put an end to, dissolve, stop.

12. subvert, topple, cause the downfall of, upset, Sl. put the skids under, defeat, triumph over, conquer; overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, overcome; damn, seal the doom of, curse.

13. extirpate, destroy totally, annihilate, discreate, exterminate, abolish; expunge, obliterate, efface, eradicate, erase, decimate; strike out, blot out, stamp out, crush out, snuff out, wipe out; purge, eliminate, remove, liquidate, get rid of, leave no vestige or trace of, cast off, expel; extinguish, put an end to, bring to an end; kill, kill off, slay, slaughter, cut [s.o.'s] throat; murder, finish, finish off, Sl. do in, Sl. zap. sacrifice.

14. blunder, fail, Sl. gum up the works, mess up, Inf. rain on, play havoc with, raise havoc with; spoil, Dial. butch, botch, Sl. cook, Sl. louse up, Sl. screw up, Inf. make a hash of, upset the or one's applecart.

15. corrupt, deprave, pervert, demoralize, vitiate; debase, degrade, disgrace, dishonor; taint, poison, pollute, defile; injure, harm, impair, damage, spoil; mar, mark, stain, scar, deface, blemish.

16. undermine, sap, weaken; discredit, invalidate; nullify, neutralize, counteract.

17. deteriorate, decay, waste, break down, disintegrate, disrupt, disorganize; collapse, break up, dissipate, disperse.

18. reduce to poverty, impoverish, bring to want, pauperize, bankrupt; fleece, defraud, swindle.

19. violate, deflower, devirginate, rape, debauch, ravish, ravage; assault, attack, abuse, molest; seduce, betray, deceive, lead astray.