Boot and Ruin

Boot

Boot verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.

Usage example: he booted the answer of what should have been an easy question

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Ruin and boot are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruin" instead a verb "Boot".

Nearby Words: booted, boots, bootless, bootee, booting

Ruin verb - To cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts.

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Boot and ruin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boot" instead a verb "Ruin".

Nearby Words: ruined, ruination, ruinous, ruining, ruinously

old	old boot	old ruin
short	short boot	short ruin
complete	complete boot	complete ruin
towering	towering boot	towering ruin
Other adjectives: empty, real, little, new, giant, smoldering.

Tellingly, even after Trixie reluctantly agrees to get thrown out of town (and dumped in a desert, to boot), Checker decides to ruin the others anyway.

Source: Sadistic Choice / Fan Fic
She turns out to be an character assassin sent to ruin Skeeve's reputation and a full-grown woman to boot; natives of her dimension just happen to look like seven-year-old Klahds their entire lives.

Source: Deliberately Cute Child
It may not ruin, say, the Shantae or Boot Hill Heroes OSTs, but it definitely makes them more tiring to listen to.

Source: Loudness War / The Worst Offenders

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