v. |
[1] |
destroy
,
destroy
,
devastate
,
demolish
,
annihilate
,
dissolve
,
wipe out
,
undo
,
overthrow
,
lay waste
,
raze
,
shatter
,
wreck
,
crush
,
flatten
,
wreak havoc (up)on
,
reduce to nothing/naught
,
pulverize
,
smash
,
bring to ruin
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[2] |
spoil
,
disfigure
,
damage
,
botch
,
mess up
,
make a mess of
,
mar
,
uglify
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[3] |
spoil
,
bankrupt
,
break
,
destroy
,
wreck
,
smash
,
nullify
,
damage
,
harm
,
hurt
,
impair
,
poison
,
(Slang) louse up
,
screw up
,
put the kibosh on
,
(US) bollix up
,
(Colloq) (Slang) (Mainly Brit) make a balls-up of
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[4] |
bankrupt
,
pauperize
,
impoverish
,
reduce to penury/poverty/destitution/indigence
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[5] |
violate
,
deflower
,
deflower
,
ravish
,
seduce
,
lead astray
,
dishonour
,
defile
,
corrupt
,
debase
,
defile
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|
n. |
[1] |
ruination
,
downfall
,
destruction
,
devastation
,
havoc
,
breakdown
,
breakup
,
debacle
,
collapse
,
fall
,
disintegration
,
ruination
,
dissolution
,
wiping out
,
failure
,
decay
,
undoing
,
end
,
conquest
,
defeat
,
overthrow
,
bankruptcy
,
liquidation
,
failure
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[2] |
degradation
,
dishonour
,
debasement
,
defilement
,
corruption
,
vitiation
,
seduction
,
degrading
,
dishonouring
,
debasing
,
defiling
,
corrupting
,
vitiating
,
seducing
,
deflowering
,
defloration
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[3] |
nemesis
,
dilapidation
,
curse
,
end
,
bane
,
curse
|
[4] |
gin
,
ruination
,
mother's ruin
,
blue ruin
,
(Slang) rot-gut
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[5] |
hag
,
downfall
,
ruination
,
witch
,
crone
,
beldam
,
dotard
,
(old) fogy/fogey
,
fossil
,
fuddy-duddy
,
antique
,
(Brit) OAP (old-age pensioner)
,
(Mainly US) retiree
,
(Colloq) (old) geezer
,
wreck
,
(Slang) dodo
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[6] |
ruins
,
laying waste
,
ruining
,
debris
,
wreckage
,
ruination
,
wrecking
,
fragments
,
rubble
,
remains
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