Usually means: Decline into complete decay, destruction.
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  1. rack and ruin: Wordnik
  2. rack and ruin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. rack and ruin: Wiktionary
  4. Rack and ruin: Dictionary.com
  5. Rack and Ruin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. rack and ruin: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Rack and Ruin: The Word Detective
  8. Rack and ruin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Rack and ruin: Phrase Finder

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic, proscribed) Complete destruction.

Similar:
blue ruin, wreck, ruin, undoing, ravaging, shipwreck, decay, defeat, loss, rend, more...

Phrases:
go to rack and ruin, goes to rack and ruin, going to rack and ruin, gone to rack and ruin, went to rack and ruin, more...

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Similar:
blue ruin, wreck, ruin, undoing, ravaging, shipwreck, decay, defeat, loss, rend, more...

Phrases:
go to rack and ruin, goes to rack and ruin, going to rack and ruin, gone to rack and ruin, went to rack and ruin, more...



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