The meaning of RUIN is to damage irreparably. How to use ruin in a sentence.
Ruin is most commonly used as a verb meaning to destroy or spoil. As a noun, ruin means the remains of a destroyed or decayed place, especially a half-standing building or city. It is most commonly used in the plural, as in ancient ruins.
RUIN definition: 1. to spoil or destroy something completely: 2. to cause a person or company to lose all their or…. Learn more.
Ruin is the state of being severely damaged or spoiled, or the process of reaching this state. The vineyards were falling into ruin. She wasn't going to let her plans go to ruin.
ruin (third-person singular simple present ruins, present participle ruining, simple past and past participle ruined or (dialectal, nonstandard) ruint) (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or is decaying. 3. a fallen, wrecked, or decayed condition: The house fell into ruin. 4. the downfall, decay, or destruction of anything. 5. the complete loss of health, means, position, hope, or the like.
Ruin, from the verb meaning to fall to pieces, suggests a state of decay or disintegration (or an object in that state) that is apt to be more the result of the natural processes of time and change than of sudden violent activity from without: The house has fallen to ruins.
Definition of ruin verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.