ruin

Definition for ruin

noun as in situation of devastation

Strongest matches

bankruptcy, collapse, demolition, destruction, extinction, insolvency, wreck, wreckage

Strong matches

atrophy, bane, bath, breakdown, confusion, crash, crumbling, damage, decay, defeat, degeneracy, degeneration, destitution, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, failure, fall, havoc, loss, nemesis, overthrow, ruination, skids, subversion, undoing, waste, waterloo

Weak matches

crack up, the end

verb as in devastate, destroy

Strongest matches

bankrupt, crush, decimate, demolish, deplete, exhaust, impoverish, injure, mar, overwhelm, raze, shatter, spoil, wipe out, wrack, wreck

Strong matches

beggar, botch, break, bust, deface, defeat, defile, deplore, desecrate, despoil, devour, dilapidate, disfigure, drain, fleece, maim, mangle, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, pauperize, pillage, rape, ravish, reduce, sack, smash, total

Weak matches

bring down, bring to ruin, clean out, depredate, do in, lay waste, make a mess of, spoliate, use up, wreak havoc on

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Having an attorney general with so much potentially compromising dirt on him could be an asset, it being hard to say “no” to someone would could arguably ruin you.

From Salon

Will it save Hollywood from ruin?

From Los Angeles Times

But a string of disasters and bad luck has since turned his dream into a legendary story of financial ruin.

From Los Angeles Times

“We are on the road to ruin,” Mukhtar Babyaev, president of COP29 said in his opening remarks.

From BBC

“Everything good, anything good I did for me, he made sure to ruin it for me.”

From Los Angeles Times

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