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Meanings of ruinous in English

Extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin.

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Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin.

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Examples for "catastrophic"
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A family crisis, perhaps, or some catastrophic event at a critical age.
The arms maker of berlin
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However, there is no catastrophic internal injury, its main organs remain functional.
The Reality Dysfunction
3
In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown.
BBC
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This Shackleton affair is the first catastrophic breach in Area 51's history.
Secret of the seventh son
5
The purpose of a post-Kyoto deal is to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Reuters
Usage of ruinous in English
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Was he perhaps in possession of ruinous information about those in power?
The gates of november
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Any variation in either the speed or the course might be ruinous.
The curse of lono
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Dairy farmers say milk supports failed to stop a ruinous price plunge.
Reuters
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For startup founders in particular, such a tax bill could be ruinous.
Reuters
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The multitude of servants in a Polish establishment must have been ruinous.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
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The mill never prospered, and has long been in a ruinous condition.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 01: the Hudson and it...
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Harm was done, certainly; but not to the ruinous extent sometimes declared.
Froudacity; West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained...
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All of this was dangerous, possibly even ruinous, and not only financially.
Seeing stars
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There is a church, but it is in a very ruinous condition.
My First Voyage to Southern Seas
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Rawnsley records a ruinous obsession with reining in a perfectly reliable chancellor.
The Guardian
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The academic WE would have a far greater and more ruinous influence.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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So a ruinous conflict was introduced into the soul of Gustav Mahler.
Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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Ignorance is not only ruinous to the individual, but destructive to society.
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
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But the time such a self-healing proceeding would occupy might be ruinous.
Desperate Remedies
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And he may drag this impoverished land into his ruinous Habsburg wars.
The lady elizabeth
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Rum was judged pernicious to health, and ruinous to the infant settlement.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies o...
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