Usually means: Deteriorating quality or destroying value.
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  1. ruining: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ruining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ruining, ruining: Wordnik
  5. ruining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ruining: Wiktionary
  7. Ruining, ruining: Dictionary.com
  8. ruining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ruining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. ruining: Rhymezone
  11. Ruining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ruining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. ruining: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ruining: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. ruining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ruining: Legal dictionary

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  1. ruining: Idioms

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▸ noun:  The act or process by which something is ruined.

Similar:
wrecking, ruination, laying waste, spoilation, spoilage, damaging, trashing, disfiguration, damnification, sullying, more...

Opposite:
preserving, protecting, saving, conserving

Types:
destroying, spoiling, damaging, marring, defacing, disfiguring, more...

Phrases:
E-Girls Are Ruining My Life!, Ruining It for Everybody, life ruining, ruining reputation, ruining the appearance of, more...

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Similar:
wrecking, ruination, laying waste, spoilation, spoilage, damaging, trashing, disfiguration, damnification, sullying, more...

Opposite:
preserving, protecting, saving, conserving

Types:
destroying, spoiling, damaging, marring, defacing, disfiguring, more...

Phrases:
E-Girls Are Ruining My Life!, Ruining It for Everybody, life ruining, ruining reputation, ruining the appearance of, self ruining, ruining clothes, more...

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark brown,     charcoal,     muddy brown, more...



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