RUINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruiner mean? 

• RUINER (noun)
  The noun RUINER has 1 sense:

1. a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

  Familiarity information: RUINER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster

Context example:

uprooters of gravestones

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)