Usually means: Destruction or decay; complete downfall.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Ruination:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruination: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ruination: Merriam-Webster
  3. ruination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ruination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ruination: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ruination: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ruination, ruination: Wordnik
  8. ruination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ruination: Wiktionary
  10. ruination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ruination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ruination: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ruination, ruination: Dictionary.com
  14. Ruination (album), Ruination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ruination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ruination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ruination: Rhymezone
  18. Ruination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ruination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ruination: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ruination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ruination: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruination: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruination: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruination: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ruination)

▸ noun:  The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
▸ noun:  The act of ruining or wrecking.
▸ noun:  The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
▸ noun:  A loss of reputation.

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ruin, wrecking, laying waste, ruinousness, wreckedness, destructedness, disastrousness, disrepair, degradation, depravation, more...

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utter, complete, economic, own, total, financial, moral, final, perfect, ultimate, general



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Similar:
ruin, wrecking, laying waste, ruinousness, wreckedness, destructedness, disastrousness, disrepair, degradation, depravation, more...

Adjectives:
utter, complete, economic, own, total, financial, moral, final, perfect, ultimate, general



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