- destroyed, ruined - destroyed physically or morally
Antonym: saved (indirect, via lost)
- done for, ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up - doomed to extinction
Antonym: successful (indirect, via unsuccessful)
- finished, ruined - brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"
Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
- blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted - made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
- destroy, ruin - destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun ruin6, noun ruin4, noun ruin1, noun ruination4, noun ruiner1, noun ruining1
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- ruin - destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"
--2 is one way to thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun ruin5, noun ruiner1
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- bankrupt, ruin, break, smash - reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
--3 is one way to impoverish
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- ruin - reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"
--4 is one way to lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun ruin6, noun ruin2, noun ruination1, noun ruiner1, noun ruining1
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- deflower, ruin - deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"
--5 is one way to copulate, mate, pair, couple
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- ruin - fall into ruin
--6 is one way to decay, crumble, delapidate
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun ruin2, noun ruin3
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