Definitions
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
Word origin
From Middle English ruynous, from Old French ruinos, ruineus, from Latin ruīnōsus. By surface analysis, ruin + -ous.
Used in a sentence
“They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.”
“We are rapidly reversing the economic calamity we inherited from the previous administration, including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation, inflation like we've never had before.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Destructive”7 letters
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