ruination

n

1. demolition, wiping out, laying waste, gutting, devastation, desolation; destroying, bringing to ruin, laying in ruins; wrecking, knocking to pieces, dashing to pieces, smashing; dismantling, disassembly, taking apart.

2. razing, tearing down, pulling down, taking down, bringing down, breaking down, throwing down, beating down; casting down, knocking down, flinging down, hurling down, precipitating, Inf. spilling; felling, leveling, prostration; cutting down, chopping down, hewing down.

3. pulverizing, crushing, squelching, Sl. smushing, mashing; crashing, shattering, battering, breaking; fracturing, tearing apart, wrenching apart, cracking, splitting; mutilation, mangling, making mincemeat of.

4. annihilation, discreation, extermination, extirpation, extinguishment, extinction; erasure, erasion, effacement, eradication, expunction, cancellation, obliteration; excising, cutting out, cutting off; blotting out, striking out, stamping out, crushing out, rubbing out; killing, slaying, slaughter; murdering, finishing off, Sl. zapping, sacrificing.

5. quashing, crushing, subduing, quelling, suppressing, squelching, vanquishing, squashing; cutting short, shooting down, Inf. putting the kibosh on, Inf. cooking [s.o.'s] goose, nipping in the bud; termination, checking, putting an end to, stopping.

6. blundering, failing, Sl. gumming up the works, messing up, playing havoc with, raising havoc with; spoiling, Dial. hutching, botching, Sl. lousing up, Sl. screwing up, Inf. making a hash of, upsetting the applecart.

7. corrupting, perverting, demoralizing, vitiating; debasing, degrading, disgracing, dishonoring; tainting, poisoning, polluting, defiling; injuring, harming, impairing, damaging; marring, marking, staining, scarring, defacing.

8. undermining, sapping, weakening; discreditation, invalidation; nullification, neutralization.

9. deteriorating, decaying, wasting, breaking down, disintegrating, disrupting; collapsing, breaking up, dissipating, dispersing.