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Ruin   /rˈuən/  /rˈuɪn/   Listen
Ruin

noun
1.
An irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction.  Synonym: ruination.
2.
A ruined building.
3.
The process of becoming dilapidated.  Synonym: dilapidation.
4.
An event that results in destruction.  Synonym: ruination.
5.
Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation.  Synonyms: downfall, ruination.
6.
Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined.  Synonyms: laying waste, ruination, ruining, wrecking.
verb
(past & past part. ruined;pres. part. ruining)
1.
Destroy completely; damage irreparably.  Synonym: destroy.  "The tears ruined her make-up"
2.
Destroy or cause to fail.
3.
Reduce to bankruptcy.  Synonyms: bankrupt, break, smash.  "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
4.
Reduce to ruins.
5.
Deprive of virginity.  Synonym: deflower.
6.
Fall into ruin.



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"Ruin" Quotes from Famous Books



... "You will not think of doing such a desperate thing, which might ruin your whole life, when I have promised you that there is ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... with his great bull-headed English obstinacy, saw the facheuse position into which he had brought his troops, he was for dying on the spot, and would infallibly have done so—and the loss of his army would have been the ruin of the East India Company—and the ruin of the English East India Company would have established my empire (bah! it was a republic then!) in the East—but that the man before us, Lieutenant Goliah Gahagan, was riding at the side of ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainable three-half-pence cheaper by the ruin of ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou
... Egypt's great host in battle-ray forth brought, The Caliph sends with Godfrey's power to fight; Armida, who Rinaldo's ruin sought, To them adjoins herself and Syria's might. To satisfy her cruel will and thought, She gives herself to him that kills her knight: He takes his fatal arms, and in his shield His ancestors and their ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... signed by names unknown to her. They all related to race-horses, and to cunningly devised bets which were certain to make the fortunes of the clever gamblers on the turf who laid them. Absolute indifference on the part of the winners to the ruin of the losers, who were not in the secret, was the one feeling in common, which her father's correspondents presented. In mercy to his memory she threw the letters into the empty fireplace, and destroyed ...
— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins


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