Ruin synonyms | Another word for ruin

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

Ruin Synonyms

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