ruinate
41swallow up — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, bring to ruin, burn up, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, deplete, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, digest, dissolve, drain …
42upheave — Synonyms and related words: arise, ascend, boost, bring to ruin, bristle, buoy up, cast up, cock up, come up, condemn, confound, consume, curl upwards, damn, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour,… …
43vandalize — Synonyms and related words: assault, attack, barbarize, batter, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry on, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve,… …
44vaporize — Synonyms and related words: aerate, aerify, atomize, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, bring to ruin, burn to death, carbonate, chlorinate, condemn, confound, consume, cut down, cut to pieces, damn, deal a deathblow, deal destruction,… …
45waste — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abate, ablate, ablation, absorption, acarpous, afterglow, afterimage, arid, assimilation, atrophy, attenuate, attrition, back, back of beyond, back country, backwood, backwoods,… …
46wrack — Synonyms and related words: algae, autophyte, bean, bloodbath, blue ruin, bracken, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brown algae, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave in, climber, collapse, condemn, conferva, confervoid,… …
47wreak havoc — Synonyms and related words: abuse, afflict, aggrieve, befoul, bewitch, blight, bring to ruin, condemn, confound, consume, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, damn, deal destruction, decimate, defile, deprave, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy,… …
48wreck — Synonyms and related words: accident, assault, atomize, attack, auto, autocar, automobile, bankrupt, barbarize, batter, beach, blight, bloodbath, blow, blue ruin, boat, botch, break to pieces, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin,… …
49ruination — 1660s, from verb ruinate (1540s), from M.L. ruinatus, pp. of ruinare, from L. ruina (see RUIN (Cf. ruin)) …
50ruin — I. n. 1. Destruction, discomfiture, overthrow, defeat, wreck, perdition, fall, downfall, prostration, subversion, undoing, shipwreck. 2. Bane, pest, mischief, destruction, perdition. 3. Wreck. II. v. a. 1. Destroy, demolish, overthrow, subvert,… …
