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RUINER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Example:

uprooters of gravestones

Synonyms:

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ruiner" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ruiner"):

annihilator (a total destroyer)

iconoclast; image breaker (a destroyer of images used in religious worship)

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker (someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks)

vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)

Derivation:

ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

ruin (reduce to ruins)

ruin (destroy or cause to fail)

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