Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who ruins or destroys.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, ruins.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun someone who ruins.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

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Examples

  • I’m curious as to what your definition of "ruiner" is … some of these things, like Kate’s pregnancy might take something away from the viewers who know this beforehand.

    The Tail Section » Lost Season 4 Rumor and Spoiler Round Up! 2007

  • The ruiner is a collector is a defector serving his shit to his flies lies. lies, lies,….

    Family Guy’s Cleveland Gets Own Show 2005

  • Forget the "ruiner" symantics … this is no different to last season’s leaked stuff that you dissed?

    The Tail Section » Lost Season 4 Rumor and Spoiler Round Up! 2007

  • Then there is the famous e-collar, a punishment training tool, that can be a great training tool or in most cases when handled by someone that doesn't know what he is doing - a dog ruiner.

    Are You a DIY Dog Trainer? 2009

  • Then there is the famous e-collar, a punishment training tool, that can be a great training tool or in most cases when handled by someone that doesn't know what he is doing - a dog ruiner.

    Are You a DIY Dog Trainer? 2009

  • "Will you raise your head, mother of discord and ruiner of good food?" says Izzat.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • There was also the huge open not yet built gap in the wall directly behind venom when it detonated which was on the opposite side of the building as the huge crowd watching the final battle. am i the only one to notice this crap? venom is not dead. maybe eddie but not the symbiote. and "venom" doesnt necessarily need to be eddie im spent ruiner on Mar 19, 2009

    Bring On Venom! Sony Moving Forward With Venom Spin-Off! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • "Aye, and when thy beard has grown, thou'lt be a rare Peshawar ruiner - so ye swagger enough, and curl thy hair round thy finger, and spit from the back of thy throat -"

    Fiancée 2010

  • I was a conscienceless exploiter of men, a ruiner of families, a disgusting plutocrat who cared nothing for anyone but myself.

    The envelopes Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Playing a historical second to the King of Internet Memes, LOLCats, is the highly not-safe-for-work -or-anything-else Goatse.cx, the grandfather of gross, the ruiner of innocence, the progenitor of the phrase “What is seen cannot be UNseen,” the linkbomb that topped them all.

    The Most Widespread Internet Memes | Live Granades 2009

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