ruining

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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"Castelnuovo," he said with what he hoped was a steely glint in his eyes, "isn't going to like a curse ruining business." — Occasion ... for Disaster, Randall Garrett
I am quite aware that my friend Wilmore is peculiar, but he is sincere, and as rich as a gold mine, consequently, he may indulge his eccentricities without any fear of their ruining him, and I have promised to adhere to his instructions. — The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
As to what concerns war, which is the greatest and most magnificent of human actions, I would very fain know whether we would use it for an argument of some prerogative or, on contrary, for a testimony of our weakness and imperfection; as, in truth, the science of undoing and killing one another, and of ruining and destroying our own kind, has nothing in it so tempting as to make it be coveted by beasts who have it not. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

laying waste, ruin, ruination, wrecking

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