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What is the adjective for ruinating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs ruin and ruinate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ruinous
  1. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
  2. Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
  3. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. disastrous, harmful, calamitous, destructive, injurious, damaging, devastating, cataclysmic, deleterious, catastrophic, pernicious, unfortunate, fatal, dire, deadly, hurtful, baleful, baneful, noxious, cataclysmal, crippling, fateful, damning, devastative, murderous, crushing, annihilatory, annihilative, shattering, suicidal, wrackful, costly, exhausting, withering, impoverishing, detrimental, adverse, dangerous, unfavourable, unfavorable, bad, lethal, disadvantageous, terrible, nocuous, tragic, inimical, awful, dreadful, mortal … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The state and city have continued on this ruinous course.”
      “Potatoes are selling at ruinous prices and the crop is being taken away from the growers without any profit to them for their time, labor, land, and trouble.”
      “This building is owned by a State body who have let it go into a ruinous state.”
ruined
  1. (slang) incapacitated by drugs or alcohol
  2. Synonyms:
      3. doomed, finished, done, sunk, toast, dead, kaput, over, kaputt, rekt, screwed, done for, in pieces, in ruins, at an end, in tatters, in shreds, on the rocks, in ashes, in trouble, dead in the water, up the creek without a paddle, destroyed, wrecked, lost, broken, in flames, shattered, undone, ended, smashed, defeated, demolished, devastated, dashed, all washed up, down the drain, down for the count, wiped out, down the tubes, crushed, failed, thrown down, cut down, unsuccessful, dismantled, in disarray, shagged, pwned, owned … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He was certain that his life was now ruined, yet he did not try to run from the fate which he now felt was coming.”
      “A lone building remained standing in the totally ruined landscape following the tsunami.”
      “On the shores of Brandon Bay, a ruined church of the fifteenth or sixteenth century still remains.”
ruiniform
  1. (mineralogy) Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses.
ruinable
  1. Capable of being ruined.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wreckable, destructible
ruinless
  1. Without ruins.
ruining
  1. present participle of ruin
  2. Synonyms:
      3. annoying, harming, injuring, crippling, damaging, hurting, bruising, impairing, maiming, mangling, molesting, scathing, traumatizing, wrecking, abusing, blemishing, crushing, marring, mutilating, spoiling, tarnishing, vandalizing, vitiating, wounding, breaking, defacing, deforming, disfiguring, wrenching, traumatising, vandalising, destroying, devastating, shattering, smashing, decimating, totaling, ravaging, totalling, vaporizing, demolishing, trashing, blighting, wasting, desolating, razing, pulverizing, flattening, blowing, ruinating … more
ruinated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ruinate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ruined, destroyed, devastated, wrecked, shattered, smashed, damaged, decimated, ravaged, totalled, totaled, vaporised, vaporized, blighted, crushed, demolished, desolated, marred, pulverised, pulverized, razed, trashed, wasted, annihilated, blew, blown, broke, brake, broken, busted, dashed, desecrated, flattened, injured, sabotaged, scotched, scuppered, sank, sunk, sunken, spoiled, spoilt, torpedoed, blasted, botched, creamed, defeated, despoiled, dilapidated, disfigured … more
ruinating
  1. present participle of ruinate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ruining, destroying, devastating, wrecking, shattering, smashing, damaging, decimating, ravaging, totalling, totaling, vaporising, vaporizing, blighting, crushing, demolishing, desolating, marring, pulverising, pulverizing, razing, trashing, wasting, annihilating, blowing, breaking, busting, dashing, desecrating, flattening, injuring, sabotaging, scotching, scuppering, sinking, spoiling, torpedoing, blasting, botching, creaming, defeating, despoiling, dilapidating, disfiguring, impairing, mangling, mullering, nixing, nuking, overwhelming … more
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