Ruin synonyms

Bring someone to their knees, damage, debris, waterloo, blast, banjax, bankrupt, and break are all synonyms for ruin. Reconstruction and preservation are antonyms of ruin. And here are 116 another word for ruin.

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 synonyms statistics

The noun "ruin" has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 2 synonyms with 3 letters, 4 synonyms with 4 letters, 12 synonyms with 5 letters, 18 synonyms with 6 letters, 17 synonyms with 7 letters, 12 synonyms with 8 letters, 13 synonyms with 9 letters, 4 synonyms with 10 letters, 10 synonyms with 11 letters, 5 synonyms with 12 letters, 2 synonyms with 13 letters, 4 synonyms with 14 letters, 2 synonyms with 15 letters, 1 synonym with 16 letters, 1 synonym with 17 letters, 1 synonym with 24 letters, and 1 synonym with 25 letters, for a total of 109 synonyms for ruin.

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.


Similar to ruin

Word Opposites Synonyms
In ruins Intact, flourishing Derelict, ruined
Fruitful Fruitless, futile Fruit-bearing, fructiferous
Genuine Fake, bogus, insincere Authentic, real