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Definitions for Ruin

[1] ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
[2] a destroyed or decayed building, town, etc.
[3] a fallen, wrecked, or decayed condition: The building fell to ruin.
[4] the downfall, decay, or destruction of anything.
[5] the complete loss of health, means, position, hope, or the like.
[6] something that causes a downfall or destruction; blight: Alcohol was his ruin.
[7] the downfall of a person; undoing: the ruin of Oedipus.
[8] a person as the wreck of his or her former self; ravaged individual.
[9] the act of causing destruction or a downfall.
[10] to reduce to ruin; devastate.
[11] to bring (a person, company, etc.) to financial ruin; bankrupt.
[12] to injure (a thing) irretrievably.
[13] to induce (a woman) to surrender her virginity; deflower.
[14] to fall into ruins; fall to pieces.
[15] to come to ruin.
[16] destroyed or decayed building or town
[17] the state or condition of being destroyed or decayed
[18] loss of wealth, position, etc, or something that causes such loss; downfall
[19] something that is severely damaged his life was a ruin
[20] a person who has suffered a downfall, bankruptcy, etc
[21] loss of value or usefulness
[22] archaic loss of her virginity by a woman outside marriage
[23] (tr) to bring to ruin; destroy
[24] (tr) to injure or spoil the town has been ruined with tower blocks
[25] (intr) archaic , or poetic to fall into ruins; collapse

Words related to Ruin

bankruptcy, wreckage, collapse, insolvency, wreck, extinction, demolition, destruction, mar, impoverish, overwhelm, injure, shatter, exhaust, demolish, crush, decimate, wrack, deplete, spoil

Words nearby Ruin

rugula, rugulose, ruhmkorff coil, ruhr, ruhr valley, ruin, ruinate, ruination, ruinous, ruisdael, rukeyser

Origin of Ruin

1325–75; (noun) Middle English ruine < Middle French < Latin ruīna headlong rush, fall, collapse, equivalent to ru(ere ) to fall + -īna -ine2; (v.) (< Middle French ruiner ) < Medieval Latin ruīnāre, derivative of Latin ruīna

Other words from Ruin

ru·in·a·ble , adjective
ru·in·er , noun
half-ru·ined , adjective
non·ru·in·a·ble , adjective
self-ru·in , noun
self-ru·ined , adjective
un·ru·in·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Ruin

C14: from Old French ruine , from Latin ruīna a falling down, from ruere to fall violently

Synonyms for Ruin

bankruptcy, collapse, demolition, destruction, extinction, insolvency, wreck, wreckage, atrophy, bane, bath, breakdown, confusion, crash, crumbling, damage, decay, defeat, degeneracy, degeneration, destitution, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, failure, fall, havoc, loss, nemesis, overthrow, ruination, skids, subversion, undoing, waste, waterloo, crackup, the end