ruina
= destruction, ruin, downfall, undoing, bust, obliteration, bane, labefaction, rack and ruin.
Ex: In the event of a serious accident (a fire, deliberate destruction, or a computer error) nothing will happen to the records vital to the operation of the library.
Ex: Information deprivation can be found among a very broad band of the population, including all those citizens whose life styles contribute towards the ruin of their environment.
Ex: What this time will be the cause of his slapstick downfall?.
Ex: At the dinner party, eating nearly proved the undoing of Peter, who ran the danger of becoming a pie himself.
Ex: The article "El Dorado or bust?" warns that the electronic market is changing.
Ex: The article is entitled "The wayward bookman: the decline, fall and historical obliteration of an ALA president".
Ex: The article is entitled "Donation of books to libraries: bane or blessing".
Ex: The natural result of this labefaction is the Delaware neonate killing by a freshman couple.
Ex: The policies that the Mugabe government have taken have lead the country to economic and political rack and ruin.
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* abandonado y en ruinas = derelict.
* causar ruina a = bring + ruin to.
* en la ruina = in chapter 11.
* en ruinas = in ruins, ruined.
* la ruina de = the bane of.