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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ruination
    n 1: an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you
         have brought ruin on this entire family" [syn: ruin,
         ruination]
    2: an event that results in destruction [syn: ruin,
       ruination]
    3: failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
       [syn: downfall, ruin, ruination]
    4: destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or
       ruined [syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination,
       wrecking]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruination \Ru`in*a"tion\, n. [LL. ruinatio.]
   The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Ruination:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bane, bankruptcy, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakage, breakdown, breakup, carnage, collapse, confusion, consumption, crack-up, crippling, damage, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, disintegration, disorganization, disrepair, disruption, dissolution, encroachment, harm, havoc, hecatomb, hobbling, holocaust, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, perdition, ravage, ruin, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, shambles, sickening, slaughter, spoiling, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, weakening, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck
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