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Definition of Ruining

1. Noun. Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined.

Definition of Ruining

1. Verb. (present participle of ruin) ¹

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Definition of Ruining

1. ruin [v] - See also: ruin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruining

Literary usage of Ruining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Napoleon's activities were ruining all European commerce; Wedgwood's ware, from Staffordshire, had become the rage all over the civilized world (see ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... because, by ruining the Country, the People were rendred unable to maintaine a Warr: besides, he hoped that this rude Behaviour of the Syrians would ..."

3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1849)
"... which has injured far more than any thing else; and which, from ruining so many, has been called by the opposite name of senselessness. 124. ..."

4. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years by Laurence Oliphant (1859)
"... SYSTEM— THE COUNCIL OF STATE—A POLITICAL CRISIS—THE " HAPPY DESPATCH" ruining A POLITICIAN THE JAPANESE SOCIAL SCALE A VISIT TO THE CITADEL THE JAPANESE ..."

5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... not loving one, But ruining and maddening all • Bid her forget—what now is past— Our once dear love, whose ruin lies Like a fair flower, the meadow-s ..."

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