Improve
Improve verb - To make better.
Ruin
Ruin verb - To cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts.
Common collocations
| mood | improve mood | ruin mood |
| character | improve character | ruin character |
| life | improve life | ruin life |
| business | improve business | ruin business |
| Other words: performance, balance, image, body, reputation, relationship, career, show, world, health, economy, country, game, story, morale, chances, looks, lives. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Cut-and-Paste Environments: The environments are entirely written in readable scripts in the game's files, which allows players to remove, ruin or improve these aspects.
Source: Video Game / Star Wolves -
Bizarre Taste in Food: During a business lunch Bruce and Isaac discuss ways to improve/ruin a single malt; Isaac likes Pepsi whilst Bruce favours Mountain Dew or Prune juice if he wishes to be healthy.
Source: Literature / Atlanta Nights -
Desiring money and power, he steals Flynn's work and worked to ruin the man instead of working to improve his own programming skills.
Source: Classic Villain
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