What is the collapse? Meaning and synonyms

There are powerful words in the language. Their people rarely use them. Probably, that's why the question arises, what is the collapse? We will answer it in detail and with examples.

Value

The collapse is said when something or someone suffered not just failure or defeat, but complete destruction. And it does not matter what it's all about: sports, studies, work. The dictionary shows that the word "collapse" has two meanings.

1. In the economic sphere, it is characterized by bankruptcy or ruin.
2. In figurative meaning - epic defeat, failure, failure.

Now it is clear that such a collapse. Shares are falling not only on stock exchanges. People's hopes, perhaps even faster than securities, are rapidly depreciating.

Imagine, the schoolboy was an excellent student, and then problems with behavior started, everything went wrong, he was kicked out of school - he crashed. After a while the young man went first as a watchman, then as a janitor, then began to write excellent stories, became famous and climbed Mount Olympus. The story ended well.

So what is the collapse? This is not just a defeat, but a complete failure. In the notion of "collapse" the distance from the initial aspirations to the point of failure is important, usually in such cases this distance is impressive. Why, for example, they say about the collapse of youthful dreams and hopes? Because every young man imagines himself a genius, then life shows him who he really is. Therefore, the collapse.

Okay, enough of sadness. We now turn to word replacements.

Synonyms

The reader probably knows all those words that we offer as substitutes. Here they are:

• Bankruptcy.
• Devastation.
• Failure.
• Failure.
• Defeat.
• Fiasco.
• Defeat.

To all the words from the list, except for the fiasco, it is best to mentally add the adjectives "huge", "huge", "fundamental", "epic".

Examples of notable failures

The 1998 World Cup was a long time ago, but those who listen to Russian rock can not easily forget it. Group Chayf so badly wounded the defeat of the team Jamaica with a score of 0: 5 in a match against Argentina, that their leader Vladimir Shahrin wrote the song "Argentina - Jamaica 5: 0". Yes, it was a real failure. If someone wants to know what a crash is, let him reconsider the match and listen to the song. Watching football, in which there are many goals, is boring.

However, we have a speech on the language, so let's give a literary example of the writer's brutal defeat. Of course, Martin Eden immediately asks. But we would like to say something else.

There is such a novel in Faulkner - "Noise and fury." We are not going to retell the plot, it's quite a difficult task. The American classic called this novel his greatest failure. But do not think that it is badly written. As the author himself explains in the interview, he had the task of telling the story, and he told it on behalf of different people, and all the time he failed. This is a very complicated novel. We think he will make many readers feel a fantastic failure, in other words, collapse. Because not everyone will master it.

The example with Faulkner proves that the "collapse" (the meaning of the word we have already disassembled) as a concept can be endowed with the most bizarre content. Victory can be a defeat and vice versa. Those who have not read the American classic, do not put this case on hold unless, of course, you like literary challenges.