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ruin
Synonyms and Antonyms of ruin
- The building lay in ruins.
- the ruins of an abandoned abbey
- a drought that nearly brought the farm to economic ruin
- The politician's eventual ruin would be a financial scandal.
kiss of death
ruin
Synonyms and Antonyms of ruin
- After he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again.
- Tornadoes ruined a wide swath of the forest.
- I burned dinner and ruined it.
beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)
blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate
erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)
dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake
blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out
despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize
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