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How to pronounce ruining in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms laying waste, ruin, ruination, wrecking
Type of destruction, devastation
Derivation ruin

Examples of ruining

ruining
These Flyers are not ruining the game, making a mockery of it, yada, yada, yada.
From the sacbee.com
Life moves too fast to spend time worrying about dust ruining the perfect image.
From the techcrunch.com
Secondly, the intent of the study is not to claim that AGW is ruining the world.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
Raiders tend to dig up a whole plantation, ruining the ground for years to come.
From the independent.co.uk
But over the next few days a sordid evening mutated into a life-ruining tragedy.
From the economist.com
But she notes that it isn't worth ruining the whole dress to try to bleach them.
From the freep.com
There are always new pesky observables popping up capable of ruining any theory.
From the guardian.co.uk
We're starting to get looks and we might be ruining someone's dining experience.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
This amounts to a religious faith, unexamined and running, and ruining, my life.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
More examples
  • An irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family"
  • Destroy: destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
  • A ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins"
  • Destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"
  • Bankrupt: reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
  • Dilapidation: the process of becoming dilapidated
  • An event that results in destruction
  • Reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"
  • Ruin is the second album by the metal band Architects and the first to feature current vocalist Sam Carter.