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ruin: a ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins"; an event that results in destruction; an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family"; fall into ruin; reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"; destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"

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wrack and ruin collapse

devastation collapse: an event that results in total destruction; the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; "her departure left him in utter devastation"; the state of being decayed or destroyed

bloodbath collapse: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"

carnage collapse

depredation collapse: an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

ruination collapse

havoc collapse: violent and needless disturbance

damnation collapse: the act of damning; the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell

spoliation collapse: (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence

despoliation collapse

undoing collapse: an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)

perdition collapse

shambles collapse: a condition of great disorder

holocaust collapse: an act of great destruction and loss of life; the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

depredate collapse

decimate collapse: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

devastate collapse: overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"

vandalism collapse: willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

swallow up collapse

lay waste collapse

vandalize collapse: destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park"

wrack collapse: dried seaweed especially that cast ashore; the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"

desolation collapse

decrepitude collapse: a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

stymie collapse: a thwarting and distressing situation; a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole

engorge collapse

shipwreck collapse: a wrecked ship (or a part of one); an accident that destroys a ship at sea; an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance"; destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"; cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"; suffer failure, as in some enterprise; ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"

incinerate collapse: become reduced to ashes; "The paper incinerated quickly"

wreak havoc collapse

disruption collapse: the act of causing disorder

disintegration collapse

consumption collapse: the act of consuming something; the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating); (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

eolith collapse: a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools

petrified forest collapse

paleolith collapse: a stone tool from the Paleolithic age

neolith collapse: a stone tool from the Neolithic Age

decapitate collapse: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"

slaughter collapse: the killing of animals (as for food); the savage and excessive killing of many people

breakup collapse

dynamite collapse: an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp; blow up with dynamite; "The rock was dynamited"

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