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verb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruinate
Verb
  • Grand Canyon Lodge North Rim wildfire: National Park Service says only hotel destroyed The Grand Canyon Lodge was the park's only hotel, according the National Park Service, with the next nearest lodgings roughly 18 miles away.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 14 July 2025
  • The lawsuit alleges that Merit Street’s business partner, Trinity Broadcasting of Fort Worth, destroyed its television network and forced the bankruptcy declaration.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • It’s designed with a hidden cutout in the back that makes the jumpsuit easy to pull down during bathroom breaks.
    Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
  • In February 2023, Bonnie Varnes, a school bus driver in the Toledo area, got pulled down in her backyard and mauled to death by her daughter's dog, Amina.
    Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • The ceiling was now on the floor, the world had turned itself upside down, her outfit and her day and her rug were seemingly ruined—and yet she herself was not hurt.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • Now a wonderful memory of the occasion will be ruined in my memories.
    Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Among those assisting are search teams and emergency crews from Mexico, who have joined overwhelmed local responders in searching for the missing and helping clean up devastated communities.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 8 July 2025
  • The girls left behind a devastated big sister along with their parents.
    Andrew DeMillo, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • By then, the city had been built and torn down more than once, leaving remnants of past communities buried under new layers.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • This development calls for better coordination between cloud providers and the security community to detect, report, and tear down abuse infrastructure before it’s weaponized.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • Day camp providers and schools are warning that a Trump administration funding freeze could wreck summer for low-income American families and wipe out some after-school programming next year.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Social media is abuzz with Tatsuki's prophecy of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami wrecking her home country of Japan -- a place prone to natural disasters but also a top destination for many in Asia -- sometime between July 5 and 7.
    Britt Clennett, ABC News, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • But in the last few years, an explosion of warehouse development has wiped out farmland and open space.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Across the industry Profits are getting wiped out across the whole chip industry, owing to excess inventories among manufacturers and retailers and a drop in demand for PCs, smartphones, and consumer electronics.
    BYNicholas Gordon, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • The internet has fragmented and flattened subcultures.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 July 2025
  • About a mile south — at a rural corner lot since flattened by Tuesday’s calamitous explosions at a fireworks storage facility — laid the place where their missing sons and grandsons, respectively, were last known to be.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2025
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“Ruinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruinate. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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