ruiner

Et cela ruina sa vie !
It ruined his life!
Si les mencheviks déploraient que Milioukov eût ruiné le libéralisme, on pourrait dire plus justement que le libéralisme ruina Milioukov.
The Mensheviks wept because Miliukov ruined liberalism, but it would be truer to say that liberalism ruined Miliukov.
En 1891, la mise en place par la France d’une politique douanière restrictive, en conjonction avec l’apparition du phylloxéra, ruina cette activité, et le port revint à sa vocation de port de pêche.
In 1891, the implementation by France of a restrictive customs policy, in conjunction with the appearance of phylloxera ruined this activity, and the port came to his vocation of fishing port.
Il a quasiment ruiné mon année.
Pretty much ruined my year.
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