ruination

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ruination
    n 1: an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "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}]

from 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]

from 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

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