(n.) The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.
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Ruination
Definition:
(n.) The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
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(1) Thus references to an American financier Stan O'Neal who helped drive his bank to ruination in 2007 were "deleted".
(2) And one assumes the entire European Union financial establishment would invoke its own visions of Irish ruination if necessary.
(3) She isn't sure – though, like Freud, she defines her anxiety as a threat that is objectless, and located in the future – such as ruination or humiliation (unlike fear, which is a response to a specific and immediate threat to one's safety).
(4) It is shooting up the political agenda and, in the potential ruination of Britain's crops and vegetables, threatening the food security of a country that already imports 30% of its produce.
(5) The possibility is now that 3D printing technology can restore whole swaths of 20th-century ruination.
(6) Their photographs capture what has become a topos of post-war urban ruination: the exposed innards of buildings.
(7) Then there was Sir Fred Goodwin's ruination of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which would no longer exist had not the English taxpayer been available to provide the money to bail it out.
(8) Jack's editorial line: an end to the "unfair ruination of personalities" and "the sleaze and sensation that pass for journalism", plus a new, more upbeat message.
(9) In a Guardian interview for a recent series on the Scottish referendum, Carmichael predicted that a vote to leave the EU would mark the “ruination” of the UK.
(10) And this is a different kind of bad, far away from the life-destroying, shame-inducing, ruination-of-a-virgin stuff.
(11) The Mainichi Shimbun, often a progressive voice on other issues, devoted part of its front page yesterday to a fuming editorial warning of the potential ruination of Japan's finest universities by the evil weed.
(12) This suggests, and confirms the authors' clinical impression, that a combination of pharmacotherapy and behaviour therapy is the optimal treatment of choice for ritualistic patients who are almost always very ruinative, doubtful and highly anxious.
(13) He nevertheless presided over the ruination of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
(14) For those of us whose brackets had shot well past imperfection and into the realm of disastrous ruination, Dayton's upset was a joyful thing, a return to March Madness after a dreary afternoon of sensible predictability.
(15) And then: "My dear mother, 1,000 years ago, told me: 'Your tongue will be the ruination of you.'