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ruination
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruination \Ru`in*a"tion\, n. [LL. ruinatio.] The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from verb ruinate "to go to ruin" (1540s), from Medieval Latin ruinatus, past participle of ruinare, from Latin ruina (see ruin (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction. 2 The act of ruining or wrecking. 3 The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost. 4 A loss of reputation.
WordNet
n. an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family" [syn: ruin]
an event that results in destruction [syn: ruin]
failure that results in a loss of position or reputation [syn: downfall, ruin]
destruction achieved by wrecking something [syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, wrecking]
Wikipedia
Ruination is the second studio album by American death metal band Job for a Cowboy. The follow-up to their first studio album Genesis, Ruination was recorded and mixed at AudioHammer studios in Sanford, Florida with producer Jason Suecof. It was released July 7, 2009, through Metal Blade Records. The album sold around 10,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 42 on The Billboard 200 chart. The first album to feature drummer Jon Rice and guitarist Al Glassman and the last to feature guitarist Bobby Thompson, guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju and bassist Brent Riggs.
Ruination may refer to:
- Ruination (Transformers), a Transformers character
- Ruination (album), 2009 album by Job for a Cowboy
Usage examples of "ruination".
The wrong choice meant the utter ruination of the entire Sperling family.
Doone still stood like a chopfallen Lazarus to survey his possible ruination.
Getting used to such sissified things was the ruination of people, Choa had decided back when he was younger and lived, for a while, in the same fashion.
Trojans either dead with him or reenslaved into such bondage it would be the ruination of all their hopes.
Though every particular of circumstance should be fulfilled in the ceremony, it would have been ruination to the Earl's plans to have the knowledge come prematurely to the King that Myles was the son of the attainted Lord Falworth.
Merlyn grumbled a good deal about athletics, saying that nowadays people seemed to think that you were an educated man if you could knock another man off a horse and that the craze for games was the ruination of true scholarship — nobody got scholarships like they used to do when he was a boy, and all the public schools had been forced to lower their standards — but Sir Ector, who was an old tilting blue, said that the battle of Cressy had been won upon the playing fields of Camelot.
You would be responsible for the ruination of your closest friend, David Shawcross, and end his distinguished publishing career on a black note.
An economy managed under the well-known socialist principles of chaos and ruination which has resulted in a negative growth rate of up to ten percent per annum for every year since the Portuguese withdrawal, a foreign debt amounting to double the gross national product, a total breakdown in the educational system, only five percent of children regularly attending a recognized school, one doctor per forty-five thousand persons, only one person in ten with access to purified drinking water, infant mortality at three hundred forty per thousand births?
I read other ruinations and runes, and perused strange preoccupations with fusion and fuels that could be used to change the balance of the land.