noun
Meaning 1
Someone who ruins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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ruiner
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noun
Meaning 2
a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a destroyer of the environment
- jealousy was his undoer
- uprooters of gravestones
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: destroyer, undoer, waster, uprooter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bad person
Narrower terms: annihilator, iconoclast, image breaker, saboteur, wrecker, diversionist, vandal
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English ruin Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English ruiner From ruin + -er.