Definitions for ruination

ruination ru·in·a·tion

Spelling: [roo-uh-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌru əˈneɪ ʃən/

Ruination is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in ruination (aiinnortu).

Definitions for ruination

noun

  1. the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
  2. something that ruins.

Origin of ruination

First recorded in 1655-65; ruinate + -ion

Examples for ruination

A fast horse on a farm is ruination to the boys, for it starts them racing and betting.

And he bristles at the suggestion that he was the ruination of her career.

A man may be bald-headed, and it's genteel; but to be barefooted, it's ruination.

"That child will be my ruination," he muttered, seating himself at the desk.

Ah kin help yo all ward off evil and jinx; ah kin help yo all git a job; ah kin help yo all ovah come the ruination uv yo home.

It looks like the day after the election, the headlines will be Republican rout, Democrat ruination.

Nazism left no stone unturned to bring about the ruination of Germany.

It is ruination to a good book not to cut it right through into the corners.

Sober or drunk: It looks like the day after the election, the headlines will be Republican rout, Democrat ruination.

But this turkey-trot-tango business—it's goin' to be the ruination of the home.

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