Wrecking vs Ruination - What's the difference?
wrecking | ruination |
The act by which something is wrecked.
* 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.
The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
The act of ruining or wrecking.
The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
A loss of reputation.
As nouns the difference between wrecking and ruination
is that wrecking is the act by which something is wrecked while ruination is the state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.As a verb wrecking
is .wrecking
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(en noun)- The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.