Words and phrases that have a meaning related to ruin: (219 results)
Often used in the same context:
spoil, destroy, ruination, tarnish, devastate, cripple, mar, decimate, wrecking, jeopardize, sully, endanger, derail, undermine, imperil, threaten, implode, overshadow, harm, ruinous, disrupt, obliterate, disintegrate, embitter, scupper, devalue, damaging, ravage, hinder, crumble, engulf, overwhelm, blemishing, doom, hamper, besmirch, disastrous, blacken, cheapen, denude, sabotages, wipe, embarrass, destabilize, prolong, annihilate, tatters, disfigure, trample, disturb, taint, despoil, blighting, lose, downfall, bankrupting, detrimental, squander, detract, eviscerate, impoverish, sunder, paralyze, scuttle, erode, weaken, dampen, diminish, hurt, shatter, waterlog, resurrect, deprive, detriment, contaminate, topple, impede, aggravate, depress, injure, backfire, obstruct, complicate, betray, undo, impair, unhinge, befoul, affect, crimp, collapse, disgrace, risking, disintegration, terrible, ruiner, disappear, drown, bad, peril, sacrificing, upend, shipwreck, disaster, discredit, undoing, wreck, damnation, perdition, demoralization, destitution, salvation, catastrophe, deliverance, disillusion, evil, chaos, destruction, disorganisation
More specific:
blight, break, burn, burn down, bust up, consume, desolate, desolation, devastation, devour, explode, fire, get, harry, kick down, kick in, lay waste to, plunder, rape, sack, vandalise, vandalize, violate, wash out, waste, wrack
Appears in the definition of:
., assassination, ball up, black, blackwash, blasting, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, break, bumble, bungle, bust, calamitous, catastrophe, catastrophic, character assassination, crumble, decay, delapidate, dilapidate, disaster, disastrous, fall, fatal, fateful, finished, flub, fluff, foul up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, precipitate, rack, relieve, ruined, ruinous, salvage, salvageable, salve, save, screw up, shipwreck, spoil, under, undo, wrack, wreck
More general:
baffle, bilk, building, cross, demolition, deterioration, edifice, foil, frustrate, impairment, queer, scotch, thwart
Synonyms:
Also try:bankrupt, dilapidation, laying waste, ruining
— Adjectives for ruin: utter, financial, own, total, economic, complete, old, certain, final, common, general, more...
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