Word Finder - ruin

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(sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.

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The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.

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The monastery has fallen into ruin.

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Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.

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Gambling has been the ruin of many.

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A fall or tumble.

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A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.

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the ruin of a ship or an army;  the ruin of a constitution or a government;  the ruin of health or hopes

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Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.

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To cause the fiscal ruin of.

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With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us!

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To destroy or make something no longer usable.

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He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.

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To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.

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The crooked stockbroker's fraudulent scheme ruined dozens of victims; some investors lost their life savings and even their houses.

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To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.

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My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.

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To make something less enjoyable or likeable.

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I used to love that song, but being assaulted when that song was playing ruined the song for me.

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To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.

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To fall into a state of decay.

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To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.

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The young libertine was notorious for ruining local girls.

First you ruin my tie, now my shoes.

Nothing was going to ruin this magnificent day.

Some one is trying to ruin me.

Why get in a rush to ruin your trip?

The smoke was bothering me and I didn't want to ruin the party for all of you, so I simply walked home.

You're not going to ruin this for me!

Well, I'm starving and if you don't stop that, I will most certainly ruin these eggs and have to start over.

The Christian powers of the Mediterranean did really combine to avert the ruin of Christendom.

Even if she managed to save the souls and win Gabriel, the truth was going to ruin everything.

While appealing, it would ruin his chances to figure out what Jessi was hiding.

We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow.

It would be a shame to ruin those beautiful eyes with this sun.

But that's a good way to ruin a terrific friendship.

There's nothing between us anymore but friendship and I don't want to ruin that with this kind of talk.

A portion of old Balvenie Castle, a ruin, is considered to be of Pictish origin, but most of it is in the Scots Baronial.

Count!... Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it...

A bad deal by a deity or its mate will ruin the universe.

Why did you have to ruin this, Darkyn?

At this time the state had been brought to the brink of ruin by the growth of avarice and luxury; there was a glaring inequality in the distribution of land and wealth, and the number of full citizens had sunk to 700, of whom about roc practically monopolized the land.

The only prince who could, with any probability of success, have established the German rule in Italy, his ruin proved the impossibility of that long-cherished scheme.

You may be hurt and feeling helpless and desperate and God knows what and I'm sorry as hell but I have a life too, and I'll not have you ruin it!

The region is to-day covered with ruins and ruin mounds.

Unwilling to let the weirdness ruin her day, Deidre dismissed the strange exchange, distracted by the smells coming from a display of homemade candles.

Yes you do, and I might be the only man who could ruin it.

Aguilar "of the Frontier" was so named in the middle ages from its position on the border of the Moorish territories, which were defended by the castle of Anzur, now a ruin; but the spacious squares and modern houses of the existing town retain few vestiges of Moorish dominion.

The Mongol invasion, in the latter part of that century, wrought their ruin, however, and from that time to the present there has been a steady decline in the commercial importance of the Euphrates route, and consequently also of the towns along its course, until at the present time it is only an avenue of ruins.

I guess it's because I'm afraid I'll ruin everything with tears.

But perhaps the most interesting relic of the past in Saalfeld is the striking ruin of the Hoher Schwarm, called later the Sorbenburg, said to have been erected in the 7th century.

Let the thunder rumble; what if it threaten ruin to farmers' crops?

But the commanding greatness of his position proved his ruin.

The town was taken in 1765 by Hyder Ali, who expelled all the merchants and factors, and destroyed the cocoa-nut trees, sandal-wood and pepper vines, that the country reduced to ruin might present no temptation to the cupidity of Europeans.

Moreover, a spiritual revival mitigated the crushing effects of material ruin.

At the height of its glory sudden and irretrievable ruin fell upon the Order.

Within the town are two subterranean vaulted buildings in good masonry, of uncertain nature, some other remains under modern buildings, and a concrete ruin known as the "Bagni di Bacco."

Bichloride of tin, having chemical affinity for silk fibre, bids fair to extinguish the use of sugar, which, from its hygrometric qualities, has a tendency to ruin the silk to which it is applied, if great care be not taken to regulate the quantity.

In 1689 the French reduced the strong castle of Kauzenberg to the ruin which now stands on a hill above Kreuznach.

When first discovered, in 1817, these frescoes were in a fair state of preservation, but they have since been allowed to go hopelessly to ruin.

For a long period it was one of the greatest cities of Asia Minor, commanding the Maeander road; but when the trade routes were diverted to Constantinople it rapidly declined, and its ruin was completed by an earthquake.

We may add that in peninsular Italy, which was most clearly under his ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the Lombards had spread havoc and ruin; so that nearly ninety bishoprics had been suppressed, either temporarily or definitively.

In consequence of the absence of the pope, the Eternal City was once more little better than a ruin; and the work of restoration was immediately begun by Eugenius.

Clackmannan Tower is now a picturesque ruin, but at one time played an important part in Scottish history, and was the seat of a lineal descendant of the Bruce family after the failure of the male line.

But this respite from trouble was ended by the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), which brought Silesia to the verge of ruin.

The choice of her daughter as wife of the future tsar was the result of not a little diplomatic management in which Frederick the Great took an active part, the object being to strengthen the friendship between Prussia and Russia, to weaken the influence of Austria and to ruin the chancellor Bestuzhev, on whom Elizabeth relied, and who was a known partisan of the Austrian alliance.

He consummated the financial ruin of the state.

The club was suppressed by the dominant "Caps," who also sought to ruin Sprengtporten financially by inciting his tenants in Finland to bring actions against him for alleged extortion, not in the ordinary courts but in the riksdag itself, where Sprengtporten's political adversaries would be his judges.

Although the outbreak of war had been preceded by years of angry diplomatic dispute, the United States were absolutely unready, while Great Britain was still hard pressed by the hostility of Napoleon, and was compelled to retain the greater part of her forces and her best crews in European waters, till the ruin of the Grande Armee in Russia and the rising of Germany left her free to send an overwhelming force of ships to American waters.

Sanquhar Castle, on a hill overlooking the Nith, once belonged to the Crichtons, ancestors of the marquess of Bute, but is now a ruin.

The falling away of the Walloon provinces and the Catholic nobles from the patriot cause threatened it with ruin.

The United Provinces were recognized as free and independent, and Spain dropped all her claims; the uti possidetis basis was adopted in respect to all conquests; the Scheldt was declared entirely closed - a clause which meant the ruin of Antwerp for the profit of Amsterdam; the right to trade in the East and West Indies was granted, and all the conquests made by the Dutch from the Portuguese were ceded to them; the two contracting parties agreed to respect and keep clear of each other's trading grounds; each was to pay in the ports of the other only such tolls as natives paid.

Its consequences were the total ruin of Dutch commerce, and the seizure of all the Dutch colonies by the English.