Synset

destroy or cause to fail
<verb.social>

sample sentences

"This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

thwart, frustrate, foil, cross, queer, spoil, scotch, baffle, bilk

hyponym

undo break shipwreck