Antonyms for ruin
ˈru ɪnru·in

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1. ruinverb

   Synonyms:
   ruinate

2. ruinverb

   to cause the ruin of.

   Synonyms:
   ruinate

3. ruinverb

   To destroy or make something no longer be able to be for good use.

   He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.

   Synonyms:
   ruinate

4. ruinverb

   To mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

   My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.

   Synonyms:
   ruinate

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1. ruin

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

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1. ruin

   Antonyms:
   rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery, stabilisation, conservation, regeneration, revivification, reparation, renascence, organization, construction

   Synonyms:
   fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse, desolation, downfall, perdition, subversion, decay, decadence, prostration, dilapidation, disorganization

Matched Categories

1. • Building
   • Copulate
   • Decay
   • Devastate
   • Devastation
   • Impoverish
   • Thwart

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1. ruin, ruinationnoun

   an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

   "you have brought ruin on this entire family"

   Synonyms:
   ruination, downfall, ruining, wrecking, laying waste, dilapidation

2. ruinnoun

   a ruined building

   "they explored several Roman ruins"

   Synonyms:
   ruination, downfall, ruining, wrecking, laying waste, dilapidation

3. dilapidation, ruinnoun

   the process of becoming dilapidated

   Synonyms:
   decrepitude, ruining, ruination, wrecking, laying waste, dilapidation, downfall

4. ruin, ruinationnoun

   an event that results in destruction

   Synonyms:
   ruination, downfall, ruining, wrecking, laying waste, dilapidation

5. downfall, ruin, ruinationnoun

   failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

   Synonyms:
   fall, ruination, ruining, precipitation, wrecking, laying waste, dilapidation, downfall

6. laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wreckingverb

   destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

   Synonyms:
   razing, ruining, ruination, wrecking, laying waste, dilapidation, downfall

7. destroy, ruinverb

   destroy completely; damage irreparably

   "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"

   Synonyms:
   demolish, destruct, bankrupt, smash, deflower, break, destroy, put down

8. ruinverb

   destroy or cause to fail

   "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"

   Synonyms:
   deflower, break, smash, bankrupt, destroy

9. bankrupt, ruin, break, smashverb

   reduce to bankruptcy

   "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"

   Synonyms:
   crack, break away, give way, soften, reveal, develop, unwrap, conk out, part, collapse, die, smash up, transgress, founder, weaken, dash, discover, bang up, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, split, give away, destroy, damp, smash, deflower, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, divulge, pause, let on, get around, interrupt, wear out, cave in, break-dance, crush, break up, check, give out, break in, give, split up, better, burst, go bad, boom, breach, break off, disclose, bust, erupt, recrudesce, break dance, go against, dampen, fall in, bump, let out, fall apart, kick downstairs, blast, nail, break down, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, expose, break, demolish, discontinue, intermit, wear

10. ruinverb

    reduce to ruins

    "The country lay ruined after the war"

    Synonyms:
    deflower, break, smash, bankrupt, destroy

11. deflower, ruinverb

    deprive of virginity

    "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"

    Synonyms:
    mar, impair, deflower, spoil, vitiate, bankrupt, smash, break, destroy

12. ruinverb

    fall into ruin

    Synonyms:
    deflower, break, smash, bankrupt, destroy

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1. ruinnoun

   Synonyms:
   bane, pest, plague

2. ruinnoun

   Synonyms:
   wreck, destruction, undoing, dilapidation, disorganization, perdition, ruination, subversion, shipwreck, downfall, havoc, demolition

3. ruinverb

   Synonyms:
   overthrow, subvert, destroy, wreck, ruinate, impoverish

How to use ruin in a sentence?

1. Committee Chairman David Cicilline:

   Companies... both large and small, have found themselves dependent on the arbitrary whim of these platform giants, one algorithm tweak away from ruin, because their decisions are largely unaccountable, opaque, and result in sweeping consequences, the dominant platforms effectively serve as private regulators.

2. Thieme Bosman:

   There are quite a lot of tourists already here and it does kind of take away the experience of being in a completely abandoned town, so I think if more and more tourists come here that will ruin the experience.

3. Cornelius Tacitus:

   He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

4. Swashbuckling Greek 20-year-old Tsitsipas:

   It was very, very difficult to overcome that match, i was really disappointed. I am disappointed now. People expected things from me. I didn't deliver. When you just ruin everything by yourself, it's devastating.

5. Jerry Jones:

   Ok this is what you want? Ok then, I’m going to ruin your life. You will see. If I was you, I wouldn’t go out tonight.

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