0 present participle of ruin --
1 to spoil or destroy something completely: --
Some kinds of gambling, although not all, are discouraged, and we are stopped by taxes from ruining our teeth.
There may be a sharpening of wits, but there is a ruining of character.
They say nothing against horse racing, which is ruining hundreds and thousands of our people.
This walking money all this time has been denuding and ruining this particular country.
It is certainly a cause for anxiety on everybody's part if people are in danger of ruining themselves by gambling.
It will take surpluses off the market; it will enable farmers to organise and prevent temporary gluts from ruining the market.
There is no question of turning them out into coverts, or of their ruining crops, or anything of that kind.
Pairs of points that cannot occur in reverse order without ruining the computation, have been shown by dashed lines.
