To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.