Definition of ruin

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Ruin (n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.

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Destroy :: Destroy (v. t.) To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
Mar :: Mar (v.) To spoil; to ruin.
Leer :: Leer (v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
Suicidical :: Suicide (adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
Ruiniform :: Ruiniform (a.) Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals..
Perditionable :: Perditionable (a.) Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition.
Pruinose :: Pruinose (a.) Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost..
Unruinated :: Unruinated (a.) Not ruined or destroyed.
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman..
Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover..
Tarente :: Tarente (n.) A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins..
Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..
Stellionate :: Stellion (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard..
Naufrage :: Naufrage (n.) Shipwreck; ruin.
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
Destruction :: Destruction (n.) A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
Confound :: Confound (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
Ruinate :: Ruinate (v. t.) To cause to fall; to cast down.
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