There are powerful words in the language. Their people rarely use. Perhaps this is why the question arises, what is collapse? We will answer it in detail and with examples.
Value
They say about a crash when something or someone failed not just failure or defeat, but total defeat. And it’s absolutely all the same what is at stake: sports, study, work. The dictionary indicates that the word “crash” has two meanings.
- In the economic sphere, bankruptcy or ruin is characterized as such.
- In a figurative sense - an epic defeat, failure, failure.
Now it’s clear what crash is. Stocks are falling not only on exchanges. Human hopes are rapidly devaluing, perhaps even faster than securities.
Imagine a schoolboy was an excellent student, and then problems with behavior began, everything went wrong, he was kicked out of school - he crashed. After some time, the young man went first as a watchman, then as a janitor, then began to write excellent stories, became famous and climbed to Olympus. The story ended well.
So what is a crash? This is not just a defeat, but a complete failure. In the concept of “collapse”, the distance from the original aspirations to the point of failure is important, usually in such cases this distance is impressive. Why, for example, are they talking about the collapse of youthful dreams and hopes? Because every young man fancies himself a genius, then life shows him who he really is. Therefore, the collapse.
Okay, enough sadness. Let's move on to word replacements.
Synonyms
The reader probably knows all the words that we offer as replacements. Here they are:
- Bankruptcy.
- Devastation.
- Failure.
- Failure.
- Defeat.
- Fiasco.
- Rout.
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 FIFA World Cup was a long time ago, but those who listen to Russian rock are not so easy to forget. The Chayf group was so badly wounded by the defeat of the Jamaican national team with a score of 0: 5 in the match against Argentita, that their leader Vladimir Shakhrin wrote the song “Argentina - Jamaica 5: 0”. Yes, it was a real failure. If someone wants to know what crash is, let them review the match and listen to the song. Watching football with many goals is not boring.
However, we are talking about language, so we will give a literary example of the brutal defeat of a writer. Of course, Martin Eden begs right away. But we would like to say something else.
Faulkner has such a novel - "Noise and Rage." We will not retell the plot, this is a rather difficult task. The American classic called this novel his biggest failure. But do not think that it is poorly written. As the author himself explains in an interview, he had a task - to tell a story, and he told it on behalf of different people, and all the time failed. This is a very complicated novel. We think that it will make many readers feel a sense of fantastic failure, in other words, collapse. Because not everyone will master it.
The Faulkner example proves that “collapse” (the meaning of the word we have already examined) as a concept can be endowed with the most bizarre content. Victory can be defeated and vice versa. Those who have not read the American classic, do not put this matter aside, unless, of course, you like literary challenges.