wipeout
Surfer's spectacular tumble
Wipeout is a dramatic fall or crash, especially one that sends a surfer tumbling off their board or a skier sprawling across the slopes.
The term extends to any spectacular failure or total defeat: The party suffered a wipeout in the midterm elections.
In finance, a wipeout describes the complete loss of an investment's value.
As a verb phrase, wipe out means to destroy completely or exhaust utterly: The pandemic wiped out small businesses across the country.
Forceful contact between objects
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- smashupViolent vehicular collision
- pileupSequential vehicular collision
- rolloverVehicle flipping accident
accident · skid · spinout · tumble · fall · spill · bail · faceplant
Hooped cylindrical vessel
- swellIncrease in size
- breakersWaves that collapse shoreward
- tubesHollow cylindrical containers
- longboardExtended skating platform
shortboard · carve · lineup · cutback · spray · offshore · onshore · gnarly
Deliberate structural destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- decimationNear-total destruction
catastrophe · disaster · razing · ruin · wreckage · eradication · extermination · extinction
Removal from eligibility
- knockoutIncapacitating final blow
- defeatVictory over another
- lossBeing without something
- shutoutGame with lopsided scoring
blowout · rout · drubbing · thrashing · landslide · sweep · annihilation · decimation
Inability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- defaultPreset standard option
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- receivershipCourt-ordered asset management
collision
Forceful contact between objects
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- smashupViolent vehicular collision
- pileupSequential vehicular collision
rollover · accident · skid · spinout · tumble · fall · spill · bail · faceplant · cartwheel
barrel
Hooped cylindrical vessel
longboard · shortboard · carve · lineup · cutback · spray · offshore · onshore · gnarly · ding
demolition
Deliberate structural destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
decimation · catastrophe · disaster · razing · ruin · wreckage · eradication · extermination · extinction · apocalypse
disqualification
Removal from eligibility
shutout · blowout · rout · drubbing · thrashing · landslide · sweep · annihilation · decimation · destruction
insolvency
Inability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- defaultPreset standard option
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
receivership · ruin · collapse · bust · failure · crash · meltdown
erase
Remove recorded marks
scrub · sweep · expunge · blank · reset · format · overwrite · sanitize
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- Surfingsurfboards, surfboard, longboards, shortboards, longboard
- compound wordsbookmark, breakdown, sunlight, breakup, snowflake
- bloopersbloopers, blooper, fail, gag reel, outtakes
- carnival ridesFerris wheel, carousel, bumper cars, merry-go-round, tilt-a-whirl
wipeoutflawless execution
Task done perfectly
sticking the landing · nailing it · triumph · victory · success
wipeoutbirth
Coming into the world
creation · genesis · survival · nascence · preservation