单词 | ruin |
释义 | ruin/ˈruːɪn /noun [mass noun] 1The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed: a large white house falling into gentle ruin...
Synonyms disintegration, decay, disrepair, dilapidation, falling to pieces, decrepitude, ruination; destruction, devastation, damage, demolition, wreckage 1.1 [count noun] The remains of a building, typically an old one that has suffered much damage or disintegration: the ruins of the castle the church is a ruin now...
Synonyms remains, remnants, fragments, relics, remainder, rubble, debris, detritus, wreckage; wreck 1.2The disastrous disintegration of someone’s life: the ruin and heartbreak wrought by alcohol, divorce, and violence...
1.3The complete loss of one’s money and other assets: the financial cost could mean ruin...
Synonyms downfall, collapse, defeat, overthrow, undoing, fall, failure, breakdown, break-up, disintegration, devastation, ruination; Waterloo rare labefaction bankruptcy, insolvency, penury, poverty, destitution, impoverishment, indigence, beggary, financial failure; disaster, catastrophe, calamity rare pauperism, pauperdom, mendicity 1.4Something that causes the disintegration of a person’s life or the complete loss of their assets: they don’t know how to say no, and that’s been their ruin...
verb 1 [with object] Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration: (as adjective ruined) a ruined castle...
Synonyms destroy, devastate, lay waste, leave in ruins, wreak havoc on, ravage, leave desolate; raze, demolish, blast, wreck, wipe out, flatten, level, crush archaic waste derelict, in ruins, gone to rack and ruin, dilapidated, ruinous, tumbledown, ramshackle, broken-down, decrepit, in disrepair, falling to pieces, falling apart, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating; neglected, uncared-for informal shambly North American informal shacky New Zealand informal munted literary blasted 1.1Cause great and usually irreparable damage or harm to; have a disastrous effect on: a noisy motorway has ruined village life...
Synonyms wreck, destroy, devastate, wreak havoc on, reduce to nothing, damage, spoil, mar, injure, blast, blight, smash, shatter, dash, torpedo, scotch, make a mess of, mess up; sabotage, poison informal louse up, screw up, foul up, put the kibosh on, banjax, do for, blow a hole in, nix, queer British informal scupper, cock up, dish, muller Australian informal euchre, cruel vulgar slang fuck up archaic bring to naught destroyed, in ruins, in pieces, in ashes, falling down about one's ears; over, finished, at an end informal in tatters, in shreds, on the rocks, done for, toast 1.2Reduce to a state of poverty: they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century...
Synonyms bankrupt, make bankrupt, cause to go bankrupt, make insolvent, impoverish, reduce to penury/destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, wipe out, break, cripple rare pauperize, beggar 2 [no object] literary Fall headlong or with a crash: carriages go ruining over the brink from time to time Phrasesin ruins OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'collapse of a building'): from Old French ruine, from Latin ruina, from ruere 'to fall'. Rhymes |
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