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• n  an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
• n  an event that results in destruction
• n  failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
• n  destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• Did it ever occur to anyone in the press that an implied threat of ruination could weaken the knees of the most dispassionate pragmatist.
• The ruination of the American family, so widely proclaimed during the '60s and frequently welcomed as a symptom of the liberating deluge, was obviously far from total.
• Because fear of succumbing to temptation must surely plague even those who remain steadfast, and imposing ruination as the cost of succumbing will drive such people away--or .

• ruin
• downfall
• laying waste
• ruining
• wrecking

News & Articles

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• Good riddance to the queen of trashy food
  Good riddance, Paula Deen — but too bad gloating over her belated ruination won’t make up for years of her televised, stomach-churning dominion over millions of Americans’ taste. Deen was a prime mover behind the bulging national waistline, a food festival butt-barer and a diabetes profiteer. Now, she’s revealed...
  June 26, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• APJ Abdul Kalam in Times of India
  When politics degrades itself to political adventurism, the nation would be on the calamitous road to inevitable disaster and ruination,Kalam told a gathering of MPs from both the houses of Parliament.
• T Boone Pickens in myfoxny.com
  This is not about Republicans vs. Democrats,Pickens says, "This is about saving our country from the ruination of spending $700 billion a year on oil imports. Ninety days after the oil hits our shores, it's all burned up, and we've got...
• Joel Quenneville in Toronto Star
  I am not moved that this is a solution at all. If this course of action is to be followed, there is little to stop the certain infestation and ruination of the Great Lakes by Asian Carp. Further study and open locks is unacceptable. I have... JB Van Hollen http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Van_Hollen&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHaHYP-kNB1A4BjNaDJT-HT1RUCvg Wisbusiness.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml%3FArticle%3D185348&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE5xNws7KiKqyIfnTEuU8bgalp1sg Feb 12, 2010 85055 113308 ruined I think we witnessed probably the worst call in the history of sports there," Quenneville said after the game. "Nothing play. ...... They ruined a good hockey game and absolutely destroyed what was going on the ice. ...... Never seen...