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What is the noun for ruiner?

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ruin
  1. (plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
  3. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
  4. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
  5. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The momentum of the building's ruin gathers and accelerates, blowing out beams as everything crumples toward the ground.”
      “A lack of dedication and commitment would ultimately bring about his ruin.”
      “His lack of self-confidence has been his ruin.”
ruination
  1. The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
  2. The act of ruining or wrecking.
  3. The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
  4. A loss of reputation.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The viciousness of the regime caused residents to leave, which led to the ruination of the island's economy.”
      “I have, more than once, been subject to temptations which might have been the ruination of a less virtuous young man.”
      “These actions nearly brought about the ruination of the association and the destruction of members' livelihoods.”
ruining
ruinousness
  1. The quality of being ruinous.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This failure to know ourselves does not limit our dissoluteness and ruinousness, only our self-knowledge as such.”
      “On the one hand, you can't help but be very struck by the ruinousness of these weapons.”
ruine
  1. Obsolete form of ruin.
  2. Examples:
    1. “T'a vniuersall ruine to extend, That Isthmus failing which the land did kepe From the intire possession of the deepe.”
      “They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.”
ruiner
  1. Someone who ruins.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He is the enemy of conjugal love, and is the Jupiter of the Greeks, an iron-hearted tyrant, the ruiner of ancient Greece.”
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ruinings
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