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ruiningverbpresent participle of ruin to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsafter he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again to bring destruction to (something) through violent actiontornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county destroying, devastating, ravaging, scourging despoiling, foraying, harrying, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, sacking, strippingannihilating, desolating, eradicating, expunging, extinguishing, extirpating, nuking, obliterating, rubbing out, shattering, smashing, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wiping out, wracking, wreckingdecimating, mowingdemolishing, razingcrushing, overpowering, overrunning, overthrowing, overwhelming reconditioning, recovering, redeeming, rehabilitating, restoringfixing, mending, patching, repairing, revamping to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofa huge fire that ruined an entire city block annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, pulling down, pulverizing, razing, rubbing out, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wracking, wrecking beating, besting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, scotching, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against)blasting, blowing up, breaking, crippling, damaging, defacing, deteriorating, disfiguring, disintegrating, dissolving, dynamiting, harming, impairing, injuring, mangling, marring, mutilating, spoiling, vitiatingeroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmakingblotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping outdespoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizingassassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revampingcreating, inventingassembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingbringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconserving, preserving, protecting, savingrebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring |