Definitions for ruins

ruins ru·in

Spelling: [roo-in]
IPA: /ˈru ɪn/

Ruins is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in ruins (inrsu).

Definitions for ruins

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 ruins

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 ruins

And the sacred "ordinance," with all other proprieties, was left in ruins that day.

By the time villagers returned to the ruins of Khuzaa in early August, the Givatis had moved south.

But so far, the lack of proven Roman artifacts or ruins in the town has raised suspicions.

Amid the ruins of the house some things had escaped any harm: a Waterford crystal glass fruit bowl and the telephone.

It was at the home of the Lemballeuse, the family who lived in the ruins of the mill.

The ruins of an ancient town deep in the Kenyan forest have befuddled archaeologists and historians for decades.

He leaves no permanent monument, no ruins of former greatness.

But for some reason this town, also, died and left the ruins alone.

There they sprouted and grew, and at last flowers and grass covered the ruins.

Neither Schwend nor Spitz maintained a low profile in the ruins of Munich and they soon attracted attention.

Word Value for ruins
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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