There are powerful words in the language. People rarely use them. This is probably why the question arises, what is a collapse? Let's answer it in detail and with examples.
Meaning
They say about the collapse when something or someone has suffered not just a failure or defeat, but a complete defeat. And it doesn’t matter what it is about: sports, study, work. The dictionary says that the word "collapse" has two meanings.
- In the economic sphere, this is how bankruptcy or ruin is characterized.
- Figuratively - epic defeat, failure, failure.
Now it's clear what a crash is. Stocks are falling not only on the stock exchanges. Human hopes are rapidly depreciating, perhaps even faster than securities.
Imagine a student was an excellent student, and then behavioral problems 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 he began to write excellent stories, became famous and climbed Mount 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 initial aspirations to the point of failure is important, usually in such cases this distance is impressive. Why, for example,talking about the collapse of youthful dreams and hopes? Because every young person imagines himself a genius, then life shows him who he really is. That's why the crash.
Okay, enough sadness. Let's move on to word substitutions.
Synonyms
The reader probably knows all the words that we offer as replacements. Here they are:
- Bankruptcy.
- Business.
- Fail.
- Fail.
- Defeat.
- Fiasco.
- Debacle.
It is best to mentally add the adjectives "huge", "huge", "fundamental", "epic" to all words from the list, except for fiasco.
Examples of notable failures
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was a long time ago, but for those who listen to Russian rock, it is not so easy to forget it. The Chaif group was so hurt by the defeat of the Jamaican team with a score of 0:5 in the match against Argentina that their leader Vladimir Shakhrin wrote the song "Argentina - Jamaica 5:0". Yes, it was a real failure. If someone wants to know what a crash is, let them watch the match and listen to the song again. Watching football with many goals is not boring.
However, we are talking about language, so let's give a literary example of the writer's cruel defeat. Of course, Martin Eden immediately suggests itself. But we would like to say something else.
There is such a novel by Faulkner - "The Sound and the Fury". We will not retell the plot, this is a rather difficult task. The American classic called this novel his biggest failure. But don't think it's badly written. As the author himself explains in an interview, he had a task - to tell a story, and he told it from the perspective of different people, and all the time he failed. This is a very complex novel. We think it will make many readers feel a sense of fantastic failure, in other words, collapse. Because not everyone can handle it.
The example with Faulkner proves that "collapse" (we have already analyzed the meaning of the word) as a concept can be endowed with the most bizarre content. Victory can be defeat and vice versa. For those of you who haven't read the American classic, don't put it off if you love literary challenges.
