Ruin
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English
Noun
Ruin (plural Ruins)- (countable) construction withered by time.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (uncountable) Something which leads to serious troubles.
Verb
Ruin (third-person singular simple present Ruins, present participle Ruining, simple past and past participle Ruined)
- (transitive) to cause the ruin of.
- To destroy or make something no longer be able to be for good use.
- To mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.
Adjectives for Ruin
dismantled; mossy calamitous; magnificent; silent; remarkable undistinguished; smoldering; mental; glorious; partial; treasured; weed-covered; irretrievable; blood-stained; accumulated; wild; reeking; moldcring; twisted; hungry; venerable; ivy-wreathed; hideous; final; complete; crumbling; barricaded; fragmentary; unsightly; blazing; dirty; scattered; undecipherable; frowning; majestic; pathetic chaotic; promiscuous; deathless; piteous impending; smoking; sudden; graceful sprawling; private; melancholy; sand-swept: stark; gloomy; mournful; hopeless; discreditable; black; rambling; picturesque; dustless; temporary irremediable; financial;
Verbs for Ruin
avert—; batter to—; behold—; brood over—; bury in—; drag to—; drift to—; escape— expire in—; fall to—; foresee—; hide—; mourn—; prophesy—; reduce to—; reflect—; repair—; rescue from—; restore—;'secure from—; shield from—; speed—; verge on—; —impends; —threatens.
Thesaurus
destroy, destroyer, destruction, detriment, detritus, devastate, devastation, devolution, devour, dilapidate, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disfigure, dish, dishonor, dishonoring, disintegration, disorganization, dispossession, disrepair, disrupt, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, divestment, do in, dodo, dotard, downfall, downgrade, drain, draw, drub, drubbing, elude, end, engorge, eolith, expense, fag end, failure, fall, filings, fix, flatten, flummox, foil, fold up, force, forfeit, forfeiture, fossil, fragments, frustrate, fuddy-duddy, gin, go on, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, hag, hammer, harm, havoc, hecatomb, hide, hiding, holdover, holocaust, hors de combat, hulk, hurt, husks, impair, impoverish, incinerate, injury, knock the chocks, lambaste, lambasting, lather, lathering, lay in ruins, lay waste, lead astray, leavings, leftovers, lick, licking, liquidation, loot, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, louse up, maim, mangle, mar, mastery, maul, mere wreck, mess up, mezzolith, microlith, mischief, mislead, mug, mutilate, nemesis, neolith, nervous wreck, nonplus, nullify, odds and ends, offscourings, old fogy, old geezer, orts, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrage, outrun, outsail, outshine, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, paleolith, parings, pauper, pauperize, perdition, perplex, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, pillage, plateaulith, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, privation, pulverize, put, quietus, rage, rags, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rattletrap, ravage, rave, ravish, raze, refuse, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, riot, roach, roar, robbery, rubbish, rubble, ruinate, ruination, ruins, rump, sabotage, sack, sacrifice, savage, sawdust, scotch, scourings, scraps, screw up, scuttle, seduce, seducing, seduction, settle, shadow, shambles, shatter, shavings, shipwreck, sink, skeleton, skin, skin alive, slaughter, smash, soil, sow chaos, spike, spoil, spoliate, spoliation, stonewall, storm, straw, stripping, stubble, stump, subdual, subduing, subjugation, sully, survival, swallow up, sweepings, taking away, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thrashing, throw into disorder, thwart, total loss, trace, trim, trimming, triumph over, trounce, trouncing, uglify, unbuild, undo, undoing, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, upset, vandalism, vandalize, vanquishment, vaporize, vestige, violate, vitiate, vitiating, vitiation, waste, whip, whipping, wipe out, wiping out, witch, worst, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck, wreckage, Waterloo, abuse, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annihilate, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, assault, atrophy, attack, baffle, balance, balk, bane, bankrupt, bankruptcy, barbarize, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beating, beggar, beldam, bereavement, best, betray, blast, blight, bloodbath, blue ruin, bollix up, botch, brave, break, break up, breakdown, breakup, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, bust, butcher, butt, butt end, candle ends, carcass, carnage, carry on, cave painting, chaff, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, clean out, collapse, condemn, confound, confront, confusion, conquering, conquest, consume, consumption, contravene, corrupt, corrupting, corruption, cost, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crash, crone, cross, crumbling, crush, curse, damage, damn, damnation, dash, dead loss, deal destruction, deathblow, debacle, debase, debasement, debasing, debauch, debit, debris, decadence, decay, deceive, decimate, decimation, declension, decline, deface, defeat, defile, defilement, defiling, defloration, deflower, deflowering, defy, degeneracy, degenerate, degeneration, degradation, degrading, demolish, denial, denudation, deplete, depredate, depredation, deprivation, desecrate, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation,
Etymology
From Middle English ruine < Old French ruine < Latin ruina (“overthrow, ruin”) < ruere (“to fall down, tumble, sink in ruin, rush”).
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Dutch
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Noun
Ruin m. (plural ruinen, diminutive ruintje, diminutive plural ruintjes)
See also
Swedish
Noun
Ruin c.
- a ruin (remains of a building)
- ruin (financial bankruptcy)
