ruination
Total financial collapse
Ruination is the state of being ruined, or the process of bringing something to ruin.
It emphasizes totality and finality more than simple destruction: Gambling was his ruination.
The word often carries a dramatic or literary flavor, suggesting complete downfall rather than mere damage: The scandal meant the ruination of his political career.
Act of completely ruining
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- disasterSudden ruinous event
calamity · havoc · carnage · apocalypse · aftermath · wasteland · desolation · wrack
Sudden structural failure
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- crumbleFragment gradually
- disintegrationProcess of breaking apart
- rubbleBroken building fragments
wreckage · razing · leveling · topple · cave-in · subsidence · dilapidation · debris
Cause of destruction
- downfallSudden loss of power
- nemesisPersistent source of ruin
- baneCause of destruction
- curseInvoked harm through words
doom · fate · destruction · end · demise · fatal flaw · hubris · folly
Dishonest abuse of power
- downfallSudden loss of power
- disgraceLoss of honor
- degradationDecline in condition
- depravityProfound moral corruption
vice · sin · temptation · seduction · perdition · damnation · fall · dissipation
Total absence of hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartbreakCrushing emotional pain
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
sorrow · downfall · disgrace · shame · undoing · tragedy · loss · desolation
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- defaultPreset standard option
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- debtMoney owed another
creditors · liquidation · repossession · destitution · impoverishment · penury · poverty · indigence
Process of declining quality
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- corrosionChemical wearing away
- degradationDecline in condition
withering · atrophy · blight · erosion · crumble · dilapidation · decrepitude · decline
destruction
Act of completely ruining
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
disaster · calamity · havoc · carnage · apocalypse · aftermath · wasteland · desolation · wrack · ravage
collapse
Sudden structural failure
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- crumbleFragment gradually
- disintegrationProcess of breaking apart
rubble · wreckage · razing · leveling · topple · cave-in · subsidence · dilapidation · debris · shambles
undoing
Cause of destruction
curse · doom · fate · destruction · end · demise · fatal flaw · hubris · folly · vice
corruption
Dishonest abuse of power
- downfallSudden loss of power
- disgraceLoss of honor
- degradationDecline in condition
depravity · vice · sin · temptation · seduction · perdition · damnation · fall · dissipation · debauchery
despair
Total absence of hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartbreakCrushing emotional pain
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
grief · sorrow · downfall · disgrace · shame · undoing · tragedy · loss · desolation · wretchedness
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- defaultPreset standard option
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
debt · creditors · liquidation · repossession · destitution · impoverishment · penury · poverty · indigence · pauperism
deterioration
Process of declining quality
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- corrosionChemical wearing away
degradation · withering · atrophy · blight · erosion · crumble · dilapidation · decrepitude · decline · wear
- dangersdanger, peril, hazard, risk, menace
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, obliteration
- downfallcollapse, demise, undoing, fall, destruction
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck
ruinationcreation
Making something exist
construction · building · erection · establishment · founding
ruinationrestoration
Returning something to condition
salvation · preservation · conservation · rescue · saving
ruinationsuccess
Favorable outcome attained
triumph · prosperity · salvation · flourishing · thriving