bring to ruin

She had a long “innings,” however, before it came to that: time enough to bring to ruin more than one young swell—among others Frank Scudamore, the “spooney” of the Haymarket supper.

He landed at Darien already prejudiced against its original settlers, and especially their leader, whom he was not satisfied to have superseded, but determined to degrade, bring to ruin, and if possible to an ignominious ending.

To subvert is to overthrow from or as from the very foundation; utterly destroy; bring to ruin.

They do not hesitate to magnify the false or to bring to ruin what they find most profitably assailable.

Such men bring to ruin all religion, but their own first, and raise unbelievers not only in Divine Providence, but in human faith.