Passing and Ruin

Passing

Passing noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.

Usage example: the precise moment of his passing was recorded by the machines at his bedside

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Ruin and passing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruin" instead a noun "Passing".

Nearby Words: pass, passage, passed, passable, passingly

Ruin noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

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Passing and ruin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Passing" instead a noun "Ruin".

Nearby Words: ruined, ruination, ruinous, ruining, ruinously

short	short passing	short ruin
massive	massive passing	massive ruin
great	great passing	great ruin
ultimate	ultimate passing	ultimate ruin
Other adjectives: definitive, few, inevitable, imminent, eventual, sudden, nuclear.

It's made clear that exposure of someone who is passing will socially and financially ruin everyone in the family, even people who were not passing and had no idea what was going on.

Source: Literature / Benjamin January
Shane Newville, a former member of Rooster Teeth, wrote a 35 page diatribe essentially accusing the company of trying to "ruin" Monty Oum's vision for RWBY after his passing.

Source: Creator Breakdown / Web Original
René saw her change while he slept: change rapidly, passing through all the successive stages of degradation which separate exuberant life from death... from that frightful death which hides its ruin in the depths of a tomb.

Source: Literature / The Vampire Countess

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