Ruin Synonyms

Bring someone to their knees , damage, debris, waterloo, blast, banjax, bankrupt, and break are synonyms for ruin; reconstruction and preservation are antonyms of ruin. On this page, you will find 116 another word for ruin.

116 Another Word for Ruin

1. disintegration

  • Damage
  • Decay
  • Decrepitude
  • Demolition
  • Destruction
  • Devastation
  • Dilapidation
  • Disintegration
  • Disrepair
  • Falling to pieces
  • Ruination
  • Wreckage

2. remains

  • Debris
  • Detritus
  • Fragments
  • Relics
  • Remainder
  • Remains
  • Remnants
  • Rubble
  • Wreckage
  • Wreck

3. downfall

  • Waterloo
  • Bankruptcy
  • Beggary
  • Break-up
  • Breakdown
  • Calamity
  • Catastrophe
  • Collapse
  • Defeat
  • Destitution
  • Devastation
  • Disaster
  • Disintegration
  • Downfall
  • Failure
  • Fall
  • Financial failure
  • Impoverishment
  • Indigence
  • Insolvency
  • Labefaction
  • Overthrow
  • Pauperdom
  • Pauperism
  • Penury
  • Poverty
  • Ruination
  • Undoing
  • Mendicity

4. destroy

  • Blast
  • Crush
  • Demolish
  • Destroy
  • Devastate
  • Flatten
  • Lay waste
  • Leave desolate
  • Leave in ruins
  • Level
  • Ravage
  • Raze
  • Wipe out
  • Wreak havoc on
  • Wreck
  • Waste

5. wreck

  • Banjax
  • Blast
  • Blight
  • Blow a hole in
  • Cock up
  • Cruel
  • Damage
  • Dash
  • Destroy
  • Devastate
  • Dish
  • Do for
  • Euchre
  • Foul up
  • Injure
  • Louse up
  • Make a mess of
  • Mar
  • Mess up
  • Muller
  • Nix
  • Poison
  • Put the kibosh on
  • Reduce to nothing
  • Sabotage
  • Scotch
  • Screw up
  • Scupper
  • Shatter
  • Smash
  • Spoil
  • Torpedo
  • Wreak havoc on
  • Wreck
  • Bring to naught

6. bankrupt

  • Bankrupt
  • Break
  • Bring someone to their knees
  • Bring to ruin
  • Cause to go bankrupt
  • Cripple
  • Impoverish
  • Make bankrupt
  • Make insolvent
  • Pauperize
  • Reduce to penury/destitution
  • Wipe out
  • Beggar

Ruin Sentences

The rain could ruin our picnic.

Don’t ruin your chances by procrastinating.

He feared it would ruin everything.

They tried to ruin her reputation.