Definitions for ruin

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ruin ru·in

Spelling: [roo-in]

IPA: /ˈru ɪn/

Ruin is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in ruin (inru).

Definitions for ruin

noun

1. ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay:
2. a destroyed or decayed building, town, etc.
3. a fallen, wrecked, or decayed condition:
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:
7. the downfall of a person; undoing:
8. a person as the wreck of his or her former self; ravaged individual.
9. the act of causing destruction or a downfall.

verb (used with object)

1. to reduce to ruin; devastate.
2. to bring (a person, company, etc.) to financial ruin; bankrupt.
3. to injure (a thing) irretrievably.
4. to induce (a woman) to surrender her virginity; deflower.

verb (used without object)

1. to fall into ruins; fall to pieces.
2. to come to ruin.

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 Frenc

Examples for ruin

To put it out of your power to ruin yourself is the only way left to prevent your ruin.

As the abuse escalated, the abusive boyfriend threatened to ruin her career.

There is a grandeur in the ruin to be enjoyed, as well as a scene of beauty from its towers.

Until now there's a man that can squeeze and ruin me any day, and that's Merchant.

Knowing the bigger ending—that the world is going to end at the end no matter what—might ruin the tension for the reader.

Well, since rhyming's been my ruin, let me rhyme to the bitter end.

It is, in fact, because it did not ruin her career that Perry has been indicted.

Were all the events of life combining to ruin or to save him?

Her arms strapped back, Lehmberg tells the officials “this erratic behavior is going to ruin my career.”

No, you are going to ruin any chance you have and give us a bad name.