Destroy (8)

(Other definitions for ruin that I've seen before include "Destroy or bankrupt" , "financial disaster" , "Destroy completely" , "financial hardship" , "Reduce to bankruptcy" .)

(Other definitions for desolate that I've seen before include "Utterly wretched" , "Miserable" , "Barren" , "alone" , "'Deserted, wretched (8)'" .)

(Other definitions for knockout that I've seen before include "Render senseless" , "End of bout" , "Decisive blow" , "Decisive punch" , "triumph" .)

(Other definitions for separate that I've seen before include "Different, distinct" , "Come apart" , "Unconnected" , "Not joined or united with others" , "Distinct or discrete" .)

(Other definitions for sabotage that I've seen before include "Subversion by inflicting damage" , "Scupper" , "Deliberate wrecking" , "Treachery!" , "Wreck" .)

(Other definitions for encroach that I've seen before include "'Trespass, infringe (8)'" , "Impinge, infringe" , "Gradually intrude (upon another's space)" , "Advance gradually (beyond expected limits)" , "Advance gradually into another's area" .)

(Other definitions for demolish that I've seen before include "Raze to the ground" , "Knock down, a building or argument perhaps" , "Pull or tear down" , "Destroy completely" , "Bulldoze" .)

(Other definitions for displace that I've seen before include "Succeed" , "Oust" , "Shift" , "Move out of position" , "Supplant" .)

(Other definitions for arrogate that I've seen before include "Seize and take control without authority" , "Unjustifyingly claim ones rights" , "Falsely claim" , "Appropriate" , "Claim something without justification" .)

(Other definitions for abrogate that I've seen before include "Annul or revoke" , "Cancel or repeal, say a law" , "Do away with" , "Get a boar to annul" , "Get rid of" .)

(Other definitions for suppress that I've seen before include "Stop publication of" , "squash" , "Prevent from being publicised" , "Stifle or overpower" , "Restrain - crush" .)

(Other definitions for diminish that I've seen before include "Become smaller or less" , "Make smaller or less" , "Get smaller" , "get shorter" , "Contract" .)

(Other definitions for dynamite that I've seen before include "Nobel's invention" , "an exciting thing" , "Jelly" , "dangerous stuff" , "Tiny dame (anag)" .)

(Another definition for destruct that I've seen is " Destroy a missile in flight".)

(Other definitions for decimate that I've seen before include "severely cut" , "Kill a large proportion of" , "Medicate (anag.)" , "Kill one in ten (as Romans did as punishment for mutiny)" , "slaughter" .)

(Other definitions for takeaway that I've seen before include "Out-of-restaurant experience" , "Food for eating off the premises" , "Remove - portable food" , "Indian or Chinese, for those who don't want to cook" , "Cafe selling food to be eaten elsewhere" .)

(Other definitions for dissolve that I've seen before include "In terms of crying, start" , "Break up a partnership, say" , "Finish" , "Melt in fluid" , "End a legal partnership" .)

(Other definitions for wreck that I've seen before include "Devastate" , "Demolish; sunken ship" , "A destroyed ship" , "Completely spoil" , "Destroy; sunken vessel" .)