ruination

Fire is to piers what water was to the Wicked Witch of the West — a ruination.

The wind did not discriminate with its ruination.

They claim the AHL’s financial gain would amount to their own ruination.

"I think they thought 'oh my god' this is going to be the ruination of us," Mr Smith said.

It was a gesture of play as much as protest, striking above all for Williams’s decision not to burn the flags but to preserve their crisp, and oddly appetizing, ruination.