Like as not the money would be the ruination of us all.

A fast horse on a farm is ruination to the boys, for it starts them racing and betting.

These I opened, and exposed the plates to ruination as before.

They killed such enormous quantities of buffalo, elk, and especially deer, that they could not pack the hides into camp, and one of the party, during an idle moment and in a spirit of protest against fate, carved on the peeled trunk of a fallen poplar, where it long remained, the sentence: "2300 deer skins lost; ruination by God!"

Ruination for Ruin.