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ruiner — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ruin verb To destroy, spoil, or severely damage something so it no longer works or pleases.
  • wreck noun The remains of a vehicle, ship, or structure that has been destroyed or badly damaged.

Senses

ruiner is used for these senses in English:

  • banjax (UK, originally, Irish, slang) To ruin or destroy.
  • blow to kingdom come (transitive, idiomatic) To totally destroy (something); to annihilate or wipe out (something).
  • ruin (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
  • ruin To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
  • wreck (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
  • wreck (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

ruin — full definition

  1. verb To destroy, spoil, or severely damage something so it no longer works or pleases.
  2. noun The remains of a destroyed or decayed structure.

wreck — full definition

  1. noun The remains of a vehicle, ship, or structure that has been destroyed or badly damaged.
  2. noun Informal: a person who is in a very poor physical or emotional state.
  3. verb To destroy or badly damage something.

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