ruin (noun) ruin: situation of devastation
Detalii: rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck
Sinonime: atrophy,
bane, bankruptcy, bath,
breakdown,
collapse,
confusion, crackup,
crash, crumbling,
damage,
decay,
defeat, degeneracy, degeneration, demolition, destitution,
destruction,
deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair,
dissolution,
downfall, downgrade, extinction,
failure,
fall,
havoc, insolvency,
loss,
nemesis,
overthrow, ruination, skids, subversion, the end, undoing,
waste, waterloo,
wreck, wreckage
Antonime: building,
construction,
creation,
development,
growth