ruination.

The process or result of bringing something to ruin.

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Words that belong together

• financial ruination
• ruination of the landscape

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The failed harvest threatened the family's financial ruination.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: atmosphere, description. Commonness: uncommon.