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单词 ruining
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ruiningn.

Brit. /ˈruːᵻnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈruənɪŋ/, /ˈruˌɪnɪŋ/
Forms: see ruin v. and -ing suffix1; also Scottish pre-1700 ruineing, pre-1700 runeing.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ruin v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < ruin v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier ruin n.
The action of bringing something or someone to ruin; the result of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun]
end832
bale-sithea1000
wrakea1275
wonderc1275
destroyingc1300
destruction1340
contritionc1384
stroying1396
undoing1398
tininga1400
ruinc1425
fatec1430
fordoingc1450
perishing?1523
shipwreck1526
pernicion?1530
ruining1562
ruinating1587
defeasance1590
defeature1592
breakneck1598
ruination1599
defeat1600
doom1609
planet-striking1611
mismaking1615
rasurea1616
destructa1638
perition1640
interemption1656
smashing1821
degrowth1876
uncreation1884
creative destruction1927
1562 tr. Louis, Prince de Condé Seconde Declar. sig. B.iii They..wold make an ende of the ruinyng of this realme.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. liv. 19 The Marchers..now perceiue theyr dilatory stay To be the causer of their ruining.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 71 in Justice Vindicated They must..dispose their own subjects to the ruining and destroying of one another.
a1700 in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 477 Heart burnings betwixt the 2 houses..layed the foundation of runeing of both the famalies.
1713 Let. 6 Dec. in R. Steele Englishman (1714) No. 31. 201 This signifies no more the ruining of the Port, than the blowing up the Risbank has done.
1789 J. Gough Hist. People called Quakers III. xxix. 150 The principal informer..had formed a project to get himself appointed high constable,..and expedite the impoverishing or ruining of friends in their estates.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lxx, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 52 She Restored the embalmers ruining.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 133 Large holdings have been the ruining of Italy and her provinces.
1905 Black Cat Mar. 29 You talk about me ruining myself..but if you don't help me get the paper out with this in it, you'll do the ruining.
1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 86 By dint of much labour, not to mention the ruining of several nibbies..they finally chipped a hole in ice.
2005 Pop. Sci. Feb. 70/1 It involved the accidental spilling of a certain radioactive substance and the ruining of an experiment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ruiningadj.

Brit. /ˈruːᵻnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈruənɪŋ/, /ˈruˌɪnɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ruin v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < ruin v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier ruinous adj., and also earlier ruining n.
1. That brings something or someone to ruin; destructive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]
fellc1330
undone1340
ruinous?a1439
violablea1470
perniciousc1475
destructive1490
confusible1502
destroying1535
exitiable1548
ruinate1562
peremptory1567
wrackful1578
slaughterous1582
ruinating1595
ruining1605
corrumpent1607
wracksome1608
in suds1611
destructory1614
poisonousa1616
wrakefulc1625
predatory1626
predatorious1641
demolishing1648
untwined1649
undoing1654
destructionable1656
destructful1659
mortal1670
wreckinga1677
fatal1692
quadrumanous1704
interdestructive1805
annihilatory1825
demolitionary1834
ruinatious1845
consumptive1860
thunderous1874
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. sig. C4 Whose ruining fire His vigilance, and labor kept restraind. View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 52 God will preserve your Souls from the ruining power of temptation.
1693 R. Fleming Disc. Earthquakes 100 An Adversary who..hath had such prevailing Successes, to carry on a ruining and judicial work.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 124 I fear a ruining design of providence against me therein.
1733 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1871) II. 162 Ruining judgments are deferred or removed.
1763 L. Taylor Ess. Revelation Apostle John ii. 124 The spiritual electors..who have been so active in this ruining war.
1848 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 168/2 Thus political excitement has been at once a raising and a ruining influence to the writings of a great English author.
1894 L. Johnson in E. W. Rinder Poems & Lyrics of Nature 145 Far From this pure rest, the Land's drear End, And ruining waters, are.
1911 tr. R. Wagner My Life I. 412 The ruining influence of ignorant court managers, which could never be overcome.
1966 Pop. Mech. May 166/2 Brake system. Here's another area which is exposed to the ruining effects of snow-piled roads and those high ridges of icy slush.
1985 C. Higham Orson Welles xiv. 310 Welles emphasized again the mortality of human beings, their essential fragility, the death of chivalry, and the ruining effects of power.
2. That is falling into ruin; decaying, crumbling, collapsing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > becoming dilapidated or ruinous
ruinatinga1661
ruining1685
dilapidating1781
wrecking1903
1685 A. Lovell tr. T. Skinner Hist. Affairs Eng. 95 in tr. G. Bate Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia No man that had a sense of humane Miseries, could see, and not be affected with the dismal spectacle of the Ruining City of London.
1778 T. Townson Disc. Four Gospels iv. v. 124 Their [sc. the citizens'] mad zeal, rapine, and cruelty..exhibited the scene of a ruining city before the Romans attacked it.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1939 in Poems I The avalanches of the ruining worlds.
1896 A. C. Swinburne Tale of Balen iv. vii Like jarring steel on ruining walls, So rang their meeting then.
1905 Harper's Mag. Nov. 821/2 It was richly consoling..to find it fronting the ruining mansion and the tangled shrubbery.
1994 C. McCarthy Crossing (1995) iv. 370 The rider sat the horse and looked about the courtyard. The old touring car. The ruining buildings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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