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ruinous

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Adjective

  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.

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