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6. ripple, undulation, rimple, ruffling; flurry, bustle, stir, swirl, swirling, flutter, rug, n. carpet, floor cover or covering, carpeting, wall-to-wall carpeting, indoor-outdoor carpeting; broadloom, drugget, braided rug, hooked rug, rag rug, ingrain, rya; scatter rug, area rug, throw rug, runner; mat, doormat, welcome mat, bathmat. rugged, adj. 1. (of terrain or other surfaces) rough, uneven, heavily wooded, dense, overgrown, bushy; pathless, trackless, impregnable, impassible; steep, rocky, rockstrewn, stony, full of obstacles, unassailable; anfractuous, tortuous; craggy, cragged, jagged, craggy, roughly broken, ragged, bumpy, unlevel, scabrous; stark, sheer, sharp, headlong, precipitous; furrowed, irregular, seamed, wrinkled, weathered, weather-beaten, seasoned; crabbed, gnarled, leathery, corrugated.
2. uncouth, unpolished, blunt, churlish; unruly, un-managable, unrefined, barbarous.
3. harsh, severe, stern, gruff, dour; unbending, un-malleable, intractile, unyielding, firm; austere, stringent, demanding, strict; challenging, Spartan, exacting; difficult, hard, thorny, arduous, rigorous, onerous, uphill, strenuous, draining.
4. stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, wild, violent, raging; cruel, cutting, piercing, biting, fierce, pitiless, ruthless, savage.
5. strong, tough, hardy, robust, vigorous, hearty, hale, stalwart, sound; stout, substantial, solid, husky, brawny, steely, muscular, mighty, tough as leather, strong as a lion, solid, beefy, burly, lusty; sturdy, staunch, able-bodied, fit; wiry, sinewy, well-knit; hard-working, Inf. gritty ruin, n. 1. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, destruction; dilapidation, ruination, wreck, wreckage, wrack, wrack and ruin; disruption, upheaval; crash, collision, crack-up.
2. overthrow, overturn, subversion, suppression, subdual, conquest; defeat, Waterloo, discomfiture, vanquishment, subjugation.
3. deterioration, decay, waste, breakdown, disintegration, depletion, dissipation, dispersion; collapse, breakup, disorganization, dissolution, undoing, debacle, failure, fiasco.
4. downfall, fall, nemesis, labefaction; failing, shortcoming, flaw, defect; curse, damnation, perdition, doom, fate, destiny, lot.
5. corruption, depravation, perversion, demoralization, vitiation; debasement, degradation; contamination, taint, poison, pollution, defilement; injury, damage, spoilage; scar, defacement, blemish.
6. distress, calamity, affliction, infliction, adversity, hardship, scourge; misfortune, setback, reversal, blow, disaster, catastrophe, cataclysm, accident; straits, difficulty, necessity.
7. loss, privation, deprivation, bereavement; poverty, impoverishment, want, destitution, neediness; im-pecuniosity, pennilessness, penury, indigence; beggary, mendicity, mendicancy; pauperage, pauperdom; bankruptcy, insolvency; wolf at the door, low water.
8. ruins remains, remnants, remainders; wreckage, debris, detritus; refuse, rubbish, waste; husks, chaff; vestige, trace, shadow; relics, reliquiae, fossil.
-v. 9. devastate, demolish, desolate, lay waste, Dial, ruinate; ravage, work havoc upon, wreak havoc on, gut, bring to ruin, lay in ruins; wreck, Sl. total, knock to pieces, dash to pieces, reduce to nothing; pulverize, crush, smash, squelch, Sl. smush, mash; crash, shatter, blast, blow up, batter, break; fracture, splinter, tear, crack, split, rend, tear apart, wrench apart; mutilate, mangle, maim, make mincemeat of; despoil, spoliate, rob, plunder, pillage, sack, ransack; vandalize, waste, Sl. trash; undo, unmake, unbuild, dismantle, disassemble, take apart.