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ruinnoun the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or uselessa vicious bombardment that left the building in ruins annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, mincemeat, obliteration, ruination, wastage, wreckage depredation, despoilment, despoliationbreakup, collapse, disintegration, dissolutionassassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughterdismantlement, effacement, eradication building, construction, erection, raising rescue, salvage, salvation, savingconservation, preservation, protectionreclamation, reconstruction, re-creation, refurbishment, regeneracy, remodeling, renovation, restoration ruins pl.the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyedthe ruins of an abandoned abbey ashes, debris, detritus, flotsam, remains, residue, rubble, wreck, wreckage jetsam, leavings, remnantchaff, deadwood, dross, dust, garbage, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste the inability to pay one's debtsthe family faces ruin if the chief breadwinner doesn't find another job very soon something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of lifethe politician's eventual ruin would be a sexual indiscretion death, destruction, downfall, ruination, undoing bane, curse, tormentAchilles' heel, tragic flaw kiss of death ruinverbto cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsafter he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again to bring destruction to (something) through violent actiontornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county destroy, devastate, ravage, scourge despoil, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, sack, stripannihilate, desolate, eradicate, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, nuke, obliterate, rub out, shatter, smash, total, vaporize, waste, wipe out, wrack, wreckdecimate, mowdemolish, razecrush, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm recondition, recover, redeem, rehabilitate, restorefix, mend, patch, repair, revamp to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofa huge fire that ruined an entire city block annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiateerode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmakeblot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe outdespoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalizeassassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, fell, kill, kill off, massacre, mow (down), murder, slaughter, slay, take out, zap build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revampcreate, inventassemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shapebring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organizeconserve, preserve, protect, saverebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore in the 12th century |