A defensive wall or rampart.
A defense or safeguard.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.
The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
The act of ruining something.
Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
To destroy or make something no longer usable.
To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.