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ruin English

Meaning ruin meaning

What does ruin mean?
Definitions in simple English

ruin Verb

— To wreck something, to make it useless, to break something. You've ruined my painting! You've ruined my screwdriver! You will ruin your pencil if you press that hard.

ruin Noun

— The standing parts of a broken building or construction. Our only look at Mayan culture is the ruins.

ruin

— verb (= destroy) destroy completely; damage irreparably You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank! The tears ruined her make-up — noun an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction you have brought ruin on this entire family — noun a ruined building they explored several Roman ruins — noun an event that results in destruction — verb reduce to ruins The country lay ruined after the war — verb fall into ruin — verb destroy or cause to fail This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election — verb (= deflower) deprive of virginity This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village — verb (= break, smash) reduce to bankruptcy My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me! The slump in the financial markets smashed him — noun (= downfall) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation — noun (= ruining, wrecking) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined — noun (= dilapidation) the process of becoming dilapidated

Synonyms ruin synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ruin?

ruin English » English

destroy destruction spoil wreck demolish damage collapse downfall loss break annihilate devastation ruination devastate decay waste ravage perdition fall disaster desolation corrupt overthrow mar injury calamity defeat annihilation harm catastrophe havoc blight mangle destruct decline dash smash quash make a mess of lay waste kill impair dilapidation deflower death crash bring to ruin botch blast wrack

Topics ruin topics

What do people use ruin to talk about?
Physical actions Break, wear out

Destroy
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil

Conjugation ruin conjugation

How do you conjugate ruin?

ruin · verb

Examples ruin examples

How do I use ruin in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I can't see her ruin her whole life.
Alcohol and hard drugs ruin people's lives.
Don't ruin my fun after all the pain that I put myself through.
A fussy referee can ruin a bout.
Too much drinking will make your life a ruin.
The town fell into ruin.
It was gambling that brought about his ruin.
I hear his business is on the verge of ruin.
Will the coffee stain ruin the carpet?
My husband and I were spinners, but our spinning company drove us to ruin.
They're coming! Don't move a muscle or you'll ruin the surprise.
We can't let this ruin our friendship.
I hope this doesn't ruin our friendship.
Let's not ruin this.
Nuclear weapons will bring about nothing but the ruin of mankind.
Gambling brought about his ruin.
Life's a ruin without you.
She's going to ruin her life if she marries that good-for-nothing. Someone should knock some sense into her.
If the difference between order and chaos or preservation and ruin were the same as that between high mountains and deep valleys, or between white clay and black lacquer, then wisdom would have had no place: stupidity would also have been alright.
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be acted on. Whoever acts on it will ruin it; whoever holds on to it will lose it.
Ruin is inside us.
I think exams ruin education.
Drugs can ruin your life.

Movie subtitles

You did ruin everything.
And you're going to ruin your life if you stick with this table.
It'll ruin everything.
If word gets out, this will ruin me.
I don't want to ruin it for all those people just because I.
I'm sorry, Louise, I didn't mean to ruin your night as well.
Try to forget me, and believe me, an alliance between us. would be our ruin.
At dawn the island was a smouldering ruin.
This woman, who will bring France to ruin, has corrupted you as well.
He'll ruin me.
Watch it or you'll ruin my act.
It could ruin the place utterly, besides cutting us off from the dukes.
I'm told that you wish to buy the centry and put up some more of your chimneys there, regardless of the fact that you'd utterly ruin a house we've had for generations and all of our pleasure here.
A scandal with that woman would mean ruin for me.
You want our ruin?
Instead of bread, we'II get hunger and ruin!
That ruin will be the end of the bolsheviks!
Do you want to ruin it all over nothing?
You'll ruin everything.
Dickson will ruin this bank if we don't stop him.
And I wouldn't hesitate one instant to ruin your reputation.
Because I have the sense to sleep tonight instead of rushing to my ruin. in an attempt to put this Duke of Monmouth on the throne?
I can't ruin his wedding.
A mistake like that can ruin.
You know. It'll ruin his life. It'll ruin his career.
That woman who will lead France to ruin, has also ruined you.
A machine created to ruin the world.
No, not to ruin!
And he don't need a tramp like you to ruin him.
You've finally managed to ruin your smock.
It'll ruin your career.
And ruin a perfectly good story?
Coco.. this would ruin me.

News and current affairs

It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin - and created the ongoing mess.
Twenty years of invasion, civil war, and drought have left Afghanistan's institutions in ruin.
Either the global community will join together to fight poverty, resource depletion, and climate change, or it will face a generation of resource wars, political instability, and environmental ruin.
Most people are aware that high-fat diets, too much alcohol, smoking, promiscuous sex, and recreational drugs, while pleasant, can ruin one's health.
Herein lies our great challenge - the one that will determine whether we follow the path of prosperity or ruin.
But the lack of transparency in this type of autocracy has also led to massive corruption and huge blunders, not to mention the growing signs of ecological ruin.
The year 2015 will be a turning point in the effort to create a global financial system that contributes to climate safety rather than climate ruin.
Insults and squabbles fill our political stage and ruin the citizens' trust in the government.
Humanity continues on a path of ruin, driven by short-term greed and ignorance.
The result has been an unmitigated catastrophe: the destruction of Iraq as a functioning society in an ongoing civil war, fueled by outside powers, that has caused economic ruin and collapsing living standards.
This is even truer in emerging-market exchanges, where one bad apple can ruin the reputation of an entire country's business.
That would immediately ruin everything.
Once again, we see how misplaced Western national priorities can bring ruin on a non-Western nation.
Veterinarians are few, but our human health services are in ruin as well.
What a contrast between Borlaug and the Wall Street financial wizards that brought the world to the brink of ruin.
Why these Washington politicians are idle while their state slides towards ruin says much about what's broken in American politics.
Addiction can lead to financial ruin and domestic abuse, especially of children.
Just going from one crisis to the next will ruin the economy for decades to come - and will exhaust the patience of even the most sympathetic of Greece's partners.
It remains to be seen how Kerry manages to balance the negotiations so that Israeli pressure on the US with respect to Iran does not ruin efforts to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Their financial innovations made them extremely rich but brought America and the global economy to the brink of ruin.
Freedom and independence, to which we tried to point the way, are not accompanied by a sense of solidarity, especially towards those who are weaker and poorer. Insults and squabbles fill our political stage and ruin the citizens' trust in the government.
It is our turn now to ruin the planet, and no one should try to stop us.
The financial sector and its free-market ideology had brought the world to the brink of ruin.

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