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• Ruin or foil.

  ‘All of the divisions of Us, predicated upon the beast within, are brought to naught.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In 1989, courageous people brought to naught the Berlin Wall.’
  • ‘Such recommendations will only bring to naught efforts to increase cooperation and decrease politicization among States.’

  Synonyms

  ruin, wreck, destroy, devastate, wreak havoc on, reduce to nothing, blight, smash, shatter, dash, torpedo, scotch, make a mess of, mess up

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