Kill and Ruin

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Kill verb - To deprive of life.

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Ruin is a synonym for kill in destroy topic. In some cases you can use "Ruin" instead a verb "Kill", when it comes to topics like cancel.

Nearby Words: killing, killed, killer

Ruin verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.

Usage example: a huge fire that ruined an entire city block

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Kill is a synonym for ruin in destroy topic. You can use "Kill" instead a verb "Ruin".

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

particular	particular kill	particular ruin
certain	certain kill	certain ruin
total	total kill	total ruin
powerful	powerful kill	powerful ruin
Other adjectives: real, big, bad, personal, major.

party	kill party	ruin party
character	kill character	ruin character
life	kill life	ruin life
family	kill family	ruin family
Other words: someone, characters, father, everyone.

White and Gray Morality: With few exceptions namely, the students who try to ruin or kill Sher, there are no utter villains or saints, according to Father Paddick, although he gets some look-in-the-mirror pushback on that.

Source: Literature / Cross And Poppy
They will preserve humans and their well-being wherever possible, but if they have to kill or ruin the lives of a hundred people, or a thousand, or a million, to perpetuate the existence of the race, they will do so without hesitation.

Source: Light Is Not Good / Tabletop Games
Much better to find out his secret identity, ruin everything he cares about, utterly destroy him mentally, then kill him.

Source: Vengeance Feels Empty

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