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7. corrupting, perverting, demoralizing, vitiating; debasing, degrading, disgracing, dishonoring; tainting, poisoning, polluting, defiling; injuring, harming, impairing, damaging; marring, marking, staining, scarring, defacing.
8. undermining, sapping, weakening; discreditation, invalidation; nullification, neutralization.
9. deteriorating, decaying, wasting, breaking down, disintegrating, disrupting; collapsing, breaking up, dissipating, dispersing. ruined, adj. 1. dilapidated, decrepit, in ruins, derelict, gone to wrack and ruin, the worse for wear, weather-beaten, weather-scarred, blasted; blighted, rotting, deteriorated, crumbling, falling down, going to pieces, Inf. tottering, nodding to its fall; time-worn, time-scarred, moth-eaten, moss-covered, moldering, gone to pot, Inf. gone to the dogs, gone to seed, worsened, on the downgrade, on the decline; Inf. down the drain, Inf. shot, SI.kaput, SI.cooked, SI. sunk; spoiled, marred, decayed, rotten, damaged, wrecked, ravaged, despoiled, eroded, wasted; mangled, rent, torn, mutilated, vandalized; shattered, smashed, in bits or pieces; burned, scorched; All Inf. botched, screwed up, fouled up, loused up, snafued, bollixed up, messed up, hashed up.
2. destroyed, devastated, desolated; smashed, crushed, broken, overcome, overthrown, overwhelmed, vanquished, fallen, SI.done in; defeated, undone, Inf done for, finished; worsted, bested, outdone, beaten, put to rout, routed, scattered, Inf. licked, Inf. whipped, Inf. trimmed, Inf. trounced.
3. wasted, withered, shriveled, wilted, wizened, dried-up.
4. past hope, beyond recall, irreclaimable, un-salvageable, irreversible, irremediable, irreparable, beyond remedy, lost, gone.
5. insolvent, broken, bankrupt, Inf. broke, Inf. flat-broke, Inf. stone-broke, SI.busted, SI.flat; destitute, in the gutter, SI.on the skids, shabby, seedy, down at the heels, out at the elbows. ruinuous, adj. 1. devastating, disastrous, destructive, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; wasting, wasteful, ravaging, pulverizing; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive.
2. extirpative, annihilative, eradicative, obliterative; deadly, fatal, fell, mortal, lethal, Archaic, lethiferous; killing, murderous, suicidal, homicidal, slaughterous.
3. injurious, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, mischievous; hurtful, harmful, noxious, noisome; malicious, vicious, wicked, evil, malevolent; detrimental, disadvantageous, damaging; baleful, menacing, malignant, bad; unwholesome, poisonous, toxic, pestilential, pestiferous, virulent.
4. adverse, negative, contrary, contradictory, opposed, opposing, opposite, antithetical, conflicting; disproving, refuting, confuting, discrediting, invalidating; derogatory, disparaging, disapproving; unfavorable, unpropitious, unauspicious; unfriendly, antagonistic, clashing, hostile.
5. fallen into ruin, run-down, weather-beaten, timeworn, worn-out; dilapidated, broken-down, decrepit, tumble-down, antiquated; decayed, crumbling, moldering, rotten, moth-eaten, seedy; rusty, frayed, shabby, threadbare, faded.
6. devastated, desolated, ravaged, destroyed, wrecked, demolished; deteriorated, decayed, wasted, depleted, dissipated, dispersed; collapsed, disorganized, dis
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