Help and Ruin

Opposite meaning words

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Ruin is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

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

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Help is an antonym for ruin in devastate topic.

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

physical	physical help	physical ruin
alien	alien help	alien ruin
real	real help	real ruin
massive	massive help	massive ruin
Other adjectives: big, great, little, personal, new, major, financial, magical.

party	help party	ruin party
character	help character	ruin character
life	help life	ruin life
image	help image	ruin image
Other words: family, reputation, someone, career, characters, world, country, father, everyone, chances.

Hoist by His Own Petard: Loki tries to enlist the Hulk to help him ruin Thor's day, but Hulk beats him up instead.

Source: Web Animation / Bad Days
In "The Painted Lady", she goes out of her way to help strangers (and the help involves stealing to the enemy army), even if it would ruin their group's plans.

Source: Chaotic Good
The Fair Folk - Divided into Good Fey, who help Players, and Evil ones who will ruin your day.

Source: LARP / Amtgard

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