RUINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruining mean? 

• RUINING (noun)
  The noun RUINING has 1 sense:

1. destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

  Familiarity information: RUINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

laying waste; ruin; ruination; ruining; wrecking

Hypernyms ("ruining" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Derivation:

ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

ruin (reduce to ruins)

 Context examples 

In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Already had he discerned a liking towards Miss Morland in the countenance of his son; and thankful for Mr. Thorpe's communication, he almost instantly determined to spare no pains in weakening his boasted interest and ruining his dearest hopes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Had not my feelings decided against you—had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable—whether by her imprudence, vulgarity, or jealousy—whether by intercepting her letters, ruining her character, or turning her out of doors.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)