ruin
— Verb
– English
～ reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"
ruination
— Noun
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～ destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
ruination
— Noun
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～ failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
ruination
— Noun
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～ an event that results in destruction
ruination
— Noun
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～ an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family"
ruined
— Adjective
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～ brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"
ruined
— Adjective
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～ destroyed physically or morally
ruined
— Adjective
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～ doomed to extinction
ruiner
— Noun
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～ a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"
ruining
— Noun
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～ destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
ruinous
— Adjective
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～ causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
ruinous
— Adjective
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～ extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
ruinously
— Adverb
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～ in a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree; "ruinously high wages"
rule
— Noun
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～ something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
rule
— Noun
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～ a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation"
rule
— Noun
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～ (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"
rule
— Noun
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～ measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
rule of law
— Noun
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～ a state of order in which events conform to the law
rule
— Noun
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～ the duration of a monarch's or government's power; "during the rule of Elizabeth"