Search Result for "ruination":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
1. an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction;
- Example: "you have brought ruin on this entire family"
[syn: ruin, ruination]
2. an event that results in destruction;
[syn: ruin, ruination]
3. failure that results in a loss of position or reputation;
[syn: downfall, ruin, ruination]
4. destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined;
[syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ruination \Ru`in*a"tion\, n. [LL. ruinatio.] The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruination": bane, bankruptcy, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakage, breakdown, breakup, carnage, collapse, confusion, consumption, crack-up, crippling, damage, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, disintegration, disorganization, disrepair, disruption, dissolution, encroachment, harm, havoc, hecatomb, hobbling, holocaust, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, perdition, ravage, ruin, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, shambles, sickening, slaughter, spoiling, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, weakening, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck
