RUINATING Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

ruinating

verb

present participle of ruinate

as in destroying

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Or tech companies forcing regular people to foot the electricity bills for their environment-destroying data centers!

— Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
Many older interceptor missiles use blast-fragmentation warheads, detonating near the incoming missile and destroying it with high-speed metal fragments.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026

Definition of destroying

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San Jose police officials released 17 minutes of security footage showing vandals brazenly breaking into the Vietnamese Heritage Garden last month and pulling down a nine-foot monument depicting a South Vietnamese soldier.

— Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Good for hugging and pulling down rebounds in pickup basketball.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

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But the neighboring 171-feet Shelborne By Proper hotel says the new tower will cast a shadow over its pool, ruining the experience for guests at the luxury hotel.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
Water had seeped in everywhere on that floor, ruining the carpet, as well as other items.

— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 July 2026

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Most of the peril comes with dangerous ship-wrecking moments, including one that implies the death of Moana's relative, while our heroine herself almost drowns on her first voyage from land.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
The blaze remained confined to the wrecking yard property, despite briefly jumping a fence and igniting vegetation to the west.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026

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Building Leaner Teams Around Creative Expertise AI is flattening traditional agency structures by automating many execution-heavy tasks.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The date was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the Tunguska impact of 1908, when an asteroid exploded over Siberia, flattening millions of trees in an 830 square mile (2,148 sq km) area.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 June 2026

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The garbanzos are sometimes roasted before pulverizing, lending the yellow powder a richer, nuttier taste.

— Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

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