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▪ I. ruin, n.|ˈruːɪn|
Forms: 4–6 ruyne (6 Sc. royne, rewyne), 4–8 ruine (6 Sc. rewvine, 7 rwine), 6 ruwyn, rwyn, 7– ruin.
[a. OF. ruyne, ruine (mod.F. ruine), = Prov. roina, ruina, Sp. and Pg. ruina, It. rovina, ruina, repr. L. ruīna, f. ruĕre to fall: see rue v.2]
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1. a. The act of giving way and falling down, on the part of some fabric or structure, esp. a building. Now rare.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xv. (Barnabas) 163 A part of it fel done,..& þai þat chapit þat ruyne, fled to þe tempil apolyne. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1605 Myn is the ruen of the hihe halles, The fallyng of the toures and of the walles. 1535Coverdale Isaiah xxiv. 19 The earth shal geue a greate crack, it shal haue a sore ruyne, and take an horrible fall. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 255 b, Partly by the ruine and fall of houses. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 28 An huge cave..From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong..That heavy ruine they did seeme to threatt. 1632Sir T. Hawkins tr. Mathieu's Unhappy Prosperitie ii. 246 The death of the Duke of Britaine, slaine by the ruine of a wall. 1700Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. ii. i, My devoted fabrick May in the universal ruine burn. 1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. ii. viii. 72 The canopy, that o'er us spreads, Tumbled, in hideous ruin, on our heads. 1793Wordsw. Descr. Sketches among Alps 580 From age to age, throughout his lonely bounds The crash of ruin fitfully resounds.
b. The act of (a person) falling to the ground or from a height. rare.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 68 b/2, I thenne stondyng on hym slewe hym, knowyng wel that he myght not lyue after the ruyne. 1700Prior Carmen Sec. xxiii, She, from the noble Precipices thrown, Comes rushing with uncommon Ruin down.
2. a. The state consequent upon giving way and falling down; a ruinous condition.
1390Gower Conf. I. 32 The wall and al the Cit withinne Stant in ruine and in decas. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 62 The temple..in thy soule wyll soone decay, and fall to moost depe ruyne. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 55 The old towne fals to ruin. 1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 98 The enemie shott much vpon the towne, and battered it in ruine. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 377 Thrice his Lightning..their demolish'd Works in Ruin laid. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. xlviii. 49 In a few years they all fall to ruin. 1820Shelley Sensit. Plant iii. 49 The leafless network of parasite bowers Massed into ruin.
b. That which remains after decay and fall; ruins (see 3). rare.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 28 In Seynt Ierom tyme men mith se be ruyne of the wall, who grete a lord he was. 1511Guylforde's Pilgr. (Camden) 16 This Jaffe was somtyme a grete Cytie, as apperyth by the ruyne of the same. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 48 Honor Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times. 1607― Cor. iii. i. 207 That is the way to lay the Citie flat,..And burie all..In heapes, and piles of Ruine. 1704Addison Campaign Misc. Wks. 1726 I. 71 Whilst here the Vine o'er hills of ruine climbs.
†c. In predicative use: Ruinous. Obs.—1
1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 397 So that it may be remedyed and holpen when that it ys ruyn.
3. a. pl. The remains of a decayed and fallen building, town, etc.
1454Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 282 The wych mese ys olde ruynes and waste. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. iii. 33 Certaine ruines.., said too be of the sayde temple. Ibid. xi. 45 b, The promontory is ful of ruines vnhabited. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iv. 231 Now there are a few ruines onely of this towne to be seene. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 40 There are still to be seen the ruins of a fair Monastery. 1712Addison Spect. No. 421 ⁋6 Babylon in Ruins is not so melancholy a Spectacle. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 68/2 Those walls..may..so be kept from filling up the ditch with their ruines. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. iii. (1858) 183 Palestine is a land of ruins..; Jerusalem is a city of ruins. 1886Pascoe Lond. of To-day xxxiv. (ed. 3) 307 The Lycian cities, some most valuable ruins of which were removed to London..between 1842 and 1846.
b. fig. Of persons, features, etc.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 96 What ruines are in me..By him not ruin'd? Then is he the ground Of my defeatures. 1601― Jul. C. iii. i. 256 Thou art the Ruines of the Noblest man That euer liued in the Tide of Times. 1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii, A fellow beauty of the last King's time, though by the Ruines you would hardly guess it. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xv. 355 So Helen wept, when her too faithful glass Reflected to her eyes the ruins of her face. 1781Cowper Ep. Protestant Lady in France 24 In pity to the sinners he design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind. 1823Lamb Elia ii. Conf. Drunkard, Trample not on the ruins of a man. 1842Tennyson Love & Duty 12 Shall..he..year by year alone Sit brooding in the ruins of a life?
c. fig. Of institutions, states, etc.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. i. 114 [He] restor'd me to my Honours: and out of ruines Made my Name once more Noble. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. Pref. 5 Arts and Civility were buried in their own Ruines. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix. V. 156 Amidst the ruins of Italy, the famous Marozia invited one of the usurpers to assume the character of her third husband. 1821Shelley Hellas 888 Islam must fall but we will reign together Over its ruins. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 5 The continental kingdoms which had risen on the ruins of the Western Empire. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. iv. (1875) 34 Of the new monarchies that had risen on the ruins of Rome, that of the Franks was far the greatest.
d. transf. Of material things.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 27 God knows, whether those that bawl out the ruins of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 479 Christ forbid, that euery Shippe which coasteth the rockey shoare, should leaue her ruines there. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 226, I shew'd him the Ruins of our Boat. 1898G. B. Shaw Plays, Arms & Man i. 8 His belt..keeping together the ruins of the blue tunic.
4. A ruined or ruinous building, town, etc. Also fig. of a person.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. x. 19 The Noble ruine of her Magicke, Anthony,..Leauing the Fight in heighth [etc.]. 1611Bible Isaiah xxv. 2 Thou hast made of a citie, an heape; of a defenced city, a ruine. 1780Cowper Progr. Error 286 As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague i. i. 34 There it stands, like a majestic ruin Mouldering in a desert. 1838Murray's Handbk. N. Germ. 256 One of these ruins has recently been restored as far as possible to its original condition. 1884R. Paton Scott. Church vii. 70 He fixed his residence in an old ruin on the top of a hill. 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays ii. 7 Hullo, here's Abinger. He looks a fearful ruin, doesn't he? Ibid. xxiv. 102 A ruin's a chap who's a swot and a punk and who's rotten at games.
5. pl. Damage, injury, done to anything.
c1592Marlowe Jew of Malta v. iv, Till thy father hath made good The ruins done to Malta and to us. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. To Rdr., This worthy repairer of eating-times ruines. 1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc i. 216 Designing how to repair those remarkable ruines, which had happened to the Monastery in the civill wars. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 191 The Earth..ought to be firm and stable and solid and..secured from all Ruins and Concussions. 1727Swift To a Young Lady Wks. 1751 V. 70 Vain endeavours to repair by Art and Dress the Ruins of time. 1731― Nymph going to Bed ibid. X. 176 Corinna wakes. A dreadful Sight! Behold the Ruins of the Night!
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6. a. The downfall or decay of a person or society; utter loss of means, position, or rank.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 387 There is no creature..that evere saugh ruyne Straunger than this, thorowgh cas or aventure. c1420Hoccleve Minor Poems xviii. 73 Lady, wardeyn of peple fro ruyne, Þat sauedest Theoffe and many mo! c1450Holland Howlat 910 He bad tham rebaldis orere, With a ruyne. 1513Douglas æneis iii. vii. 10 O thou Anchises, that..twise eschapit of Troy the sair rewyne. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 51 Wirkand all to thair confutioun and wtter rewvine. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 10 To the fatall ruine of his subiects. 1665Manley Grotius' Low-C. Wars 235 To perfect their Ruine, there hapned another fatal Mischance to them. 1750Gray Elegy 62 Threats of pain and ruin to despise. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix. V. 128 Irene more seriously undertook the ruin of the Iconoclasts. 1838De Morgan Ess. Probab. 110 In the long run, only 170 out of 421 such banks would avoid ruin. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §5. 500 The ruin that James had wrought was suddenly averted.
pl.1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. vii. (1651) 101 Nothing fats him but other mens ruines.
b. Dishonour of a woman; degradation resulting from this.
1624Quarles Sion's Sonn. viii. vi, Shield my simple Love, From those that seeke her ruine. 1706Addison Rosamond i. iv, Every charm, and every grace, That to thy ruin made their way. 1780Madan (title), Thelyphthora, or a Treatise on Female Ruin. 1848Dickens Dombey liii, Wretched marriages don't come of that, in our degree; only wretchedness and ruin.
c. Complete destruction of anything.
1673Remarques Humours Town 64 The ruine of those excellent principles which so many Ages have honoured and revered. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iv. 96, I..escaped with no further injury than the ruin of my shirt. 1871Macduff Mem. of Patmos ix. 113 Mourning over the apparent ruin and frustration of her fondest hopes. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 359 Laceration, amounting to ruin and all but complete detachment of the heart.
7. The condition of being ruined, of having been reduced to an abject or hopeless state.
For examples of rack and ruin, see rack n.5
1390Gower Conf. II. 184 And for that he..wolde noght to trouthe encline, He fell for evere into ruine. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. xxviii, Quhat was the cause that he me more comprisit Than othir folk to lyve in suich ruyne? 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. xxv. 177 That relygyous persone that lyueth without discyplyne is redye to fall to ruyne. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. (1811) 204 By which vngracious meane, he brought this lande in such ruyne. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 142 Repaire thy wit, good youth, or it will fall To endlesse ruine. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 305 Princely counsel in his face yet shon, Majestick though in ruin. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 311 The great Monarch's Death dissolves the Government. All goes to Ruin. 1778Pitt in Almon Anecd. (1810) II. 338 A cloud, that may crush this nation,..is ready to burst and overwhelm us in ruin. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 159, I am shocked with the idea, that many..should have perhaps..been reduced to beggary and ruin. 1886Contemp. Rev. Aug. 285 It was the Conservative..party which brought this Bill to ruin.
8. That which causes destruction or downfall; a ruining influence or agent.
c1425Engl. Conq. Irel. 90 He graunted the kynge that he shold ynto Irland wend..for to wythstond & lete the ruyne of syn. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. (S.T.S.) I. 205 Civil seditioun is þe onelie poisson and rewyne of all riche cieteis. 1611Bible 2 Chron. xxviii. 23 They were the ruine of him, and of all Israel. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. (1900) 74 He has..caused many to stumble and fall; and will be, if God prevent not, the ruine of many more. 1781Cowper Heroism 76 The sad lesson..That wealth within is ruin at the door. 1822Scott Nigel iv, By a quarrel you would become the ruin of me your informer. 1852Mundy Antipodes (1857) 87 Drink is the ruin, body and soul, of the people of this country. 1889M. Arnold Disc. Amer. i. 56 The unsoundness of the majority, if it is not withstood and remedied, must be their ruin.
9. In general use: Destruction, complete overthrow or devastation. Freq. personified.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1605) 225 This still should be my case, Ruines relique, cares web, and sorrowes food. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 102 Cry Woe, Destruction, Ruine, Losse, Decay. 1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. i. ix. 65 Nor poison fell, with ruin stored, Nor horrid point of hostile sword. 1757Gray Bard 1 Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! 1816Shelley Mt. Blanc 73 Is this the scene Where the old Earthquake-daemon taught her young Ruin? 1818― Prometh. Unb. i. 780 Though Ruin now Love's shadow be, Following him, destroyingly. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 423 The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws.
10. slang. Gin of a poor quality. Usually blue ruin (see blue a. 13).
c1817Keats in Rossetti Life i, He sipped no olden Tom or ruin blue. 1820J. H. Reynolds Fancy (1906) 23 The ruin you've drawn down upon your lips Has made it rather foggy. c1845Hood Drop of Gin 71 Happy the wretch that it does not win To change the black hue Of his ruin to blue.
III. 11. a. Comb., as ruin-breathing, ruin-loving; ruin-crowned, ruin-heaped, ruin-hurled; ruin-like, ruin-proof adjs.; ruin-mark vb.; ruinward adv.
1811M. Starke Beauties of Carlo-Maria Maggi 16 The *ruin-breathing tempest seems to burst.
a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 354 The hill, now, alas! *ruin-crowned.
a1878W. Carleton Farm Ballads (1893) 112 The ragged and *ruin-heaped city.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 232 With a fleet *ruin-hurl'd, They took rank in the world.
1684T. Burnet Theory of E. i. 142 There are some regions of it strangely rude and *ruine-like.
1830N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 499 The ruins..almost covered with wild briars and the *ruin-loving ivy.
1876Lowell Ode 4th July ii. i, She also hath her monuments; Not such as stand decrepitly resigned To *ruin-mark the path of dead events.
1593Nashe Christ's Teares (1613) 39 Had you rested them on the true Rock they had been *ruine-proof.
1936A. E. Housman More Poems 61 And on through night to morning The world runs *ruinward.
b. attrib., as ruin agate, jasper, marble (so called from the markings they exhibit); ruin-mound = tell n.2
1823W. Phillips Min. (ed. 3) 20 Ruin-Jasper..is commonly known by the name of Ruin Agate, but its opacity..evinces that it ought to be classed with jaspers. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 397/2 Ruin Marble shows irregular markings like ruins. 1911Encycl. Brit. XIV. 741/2 There are in Irak hundreds of ruin mounds, some of them of considerable size, covering ancient Babylonian cities. 1939P. Carleton Buried Empires i. 23 Attracted by the numerous tells, or ruin-mounds, in his district, he set workmen to dig.
▪ II. ruin, v.|ˈruːɪn|
Also 6–8 ruine.
[ad. F. ruiner (14th c., = Sp. and Pg. ruinar, It. rovinare, ruinare), or med.L. ruīnāre, f. ruīna ruin n.]
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1. a. trans. To reduce (a place, etc.) to ruins.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xii. 47 b, [They] ruined and cast down to the ground the wals of the city. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 114 From thence alongst the shore lieth Cæsaria, now ruined by them of Gallipoli. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 410 An Inundation of Waters ruin'd a thousand Houses. 1830Examiner 455/1 Our batteries continued to ruin the works. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe VIII. xlix. §87. 92 The wall, which was of tough mud, was imperfectly ruined.
fig.1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 97 What ruines are in me..By him not ruin'd? 1606― Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 51 This mortall house Ile ruine, Do Cæsar what he can.
b. fig. To overthrow, destroy (a kingdom, etc.).
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xiii. 49 After hee hadde ruined the Empyre of Constantinople. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 363 In them is plainest taught..What ruins Kingdoms, and lays Cities flat. 1743Pitt in Almon Anecd. (1810) I. 107 France had a mind to have the power of that House reduced, but not to be absolutely ruined. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 146 Charles..was not ruining the papacy, and had no intention of ruining it.
†2. To destroy, extirpate, eradicate; to do away with, get rid of, by a destructive process. Obs.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 22 Some of whom did seeke to ruine all memory of learning from among them. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. vii. (1651) 356 He fell down dead upon the Dragon, and killed him with the fall, so both were ruin'd. 1645Symonds Diary (Camden) 163 Cromwell's horse and dragoons ruined some of our horse that quartered about Islip. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 255 You shall every year renew some of your beds, ruining such as are about four, or five years old. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 175 Dip it into Water and drown them;..and by doing thus, you entirely ruin them. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 314 Our men were not ruined, as they certainly would have been, if the mountaineers had taken the alarm.
3. a. To inflict or bring great and irretrievable disaster upon (a person or community).
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 439 Marke but my Fall, and that that Ruin'd me. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 264 At this time it ruins him, which otherwhile was of much advantage to him. 1702Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. i. i, The shallow Fraud Will ruine him for ever with my Enemies. 1781Cowper Table Talk 60 The diadem, with mighty projects lin'd, To catch renown by ruining mankind. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxiv. 311 In the judgement-day I will stand up before God, a witness against those that have ruined me and my children. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 309 An obdurate lady, who is charged with ruining her lover.
absol.1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iv. ii. 40 He was neuer (But where he meant to Ruine) pittifull.
b. To bring to financial ruin; to reduce to a state of poverty.
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 366 Having consum'd all he had gotten, besides what his sister had, and other friends whom he quite ruined. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §2 Many gentlemen and ladies are ruined by play. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. i. (1900) II. 13 Though a particular merchant..may sometimes be ruined by not being able to sell them in time. 1849Lytton Caxtons xi. v, A London daily paper might ruin a man in a few weeks. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xii. 575 The freeman is not to be amerced in a way that will ruin him.
absol.1810Crabbe Borough vii. 72 But now our quacks are gamesters, and they play With craft and skill to ruin and betray.
c. refl. To bring (oneself) to ruin.
c1588in J. Morris Troubles Cath. Foref. Ser. ii. (1875) 311 When the one [Judas] would fall and ruin himself wilfully. 1653Holcroft tr. Procopius ii. 44 Do not you by contending with us ruin your selves. 1712Steele Spect. No. 278 ⁋1, I am afraid I shall be obliged to ruin my self to procure her a Settlement. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. v, The Mother-Society, so far as natural reason can predict, seems ruining herself. 1865Ruskin Sesame i. §32 You never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses.
d. To dishonour (a woman).
c1679C. Davenant Love's Conquest, At last, come, ruine me! she said, And then there fell a tear. 1727Gay Begg. Op. 1, Tell me, hussy, are you ruin'd or no? 1893Leland Mem. I. 164 She replied, ‘Please sir, I don't live anywhere now; I've been ruined’. 1929E. O'Neill Dynamo i. ii. 28 Pa and Ma warned me linesmen were no good{ddd}they just ruined you and went their way. 1955Radio Times 22 Apr. 4/3 The sentimental blatherings of Mrs. Arbuthnot who was ‘ruined’ by Lord Illingworth twenty years before. 1962E. Bentley tr. Brecht's Mother Courage vi. 51 She's not so pretty anyone would want to ruin her.
e. To demoralize completely.
1832Disraeli Cont. Fleming i. viii, It was universally agreed that college had ruined me.
4. a. To spoil, damage, injure, in a complete or destructive manner.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xii. (1674) 15 They break them, and quite ruine the Lutes. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 469 Root up my Trees,..My Vineyards ruin, and my Sheepfolds burn. 1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. to People 152 These destructive practices of ruining young trees. 1774Bryant Mythol. I. 332 Their learning was greatly impaired, and their ancient theology ruined. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 8, I have ruined the way through my estate by the carriage of supplementary loads. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. ix. 245 The contents of his pack, though recovered, were irretrievably ruined. 1889A. Lang Lett. on Lit. vii. 87 He rides..till the thorns have ruined his silken surcoat.
b. To involve in disaster or failure; to make entirely abortive.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 37 The hope and expectation of thy time Is ruin'd. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 208 Scholars by preposterous over-doing, And under-judging, all their Projects ruin. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 285 This Assiento Contract..may be of the most dangerous Consequence to it, by ruining its Trade. 1736Butler Anal. ii. v. Wks. 1874 I. 211 People ruin their fortunes by extravagance. 1781Cowper Conversat. 368 Our self importance ruins its own scheme. 1848Dickens Dombey xlv, The reflection that you had injured her position and ruined her future hopes. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xii. 23 Many times a good cause has been ruined by the over-zeal of its friends. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxvi. 357 He pretty nearly ruined his prospects in life.
c. To overturn, invalidate completely.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 68 Whatever else he could invent to ruin Mr. Jones his Opinion. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 314 It ruines his hypothesis.
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5. intr. To fall into ruins; to fall headlong; to go down with a crash. Also with in.
1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 202 They..suffered it to burne and ruine. 1638G. Sandys Paraphr. Job xxvii, Though he his House of polisht Marble build,..Yet shall it ruine like the Moth's fraile cell. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 868 Hell saw Heav'n ruining from Heav'n. 1793Wordsw. Sketches Among the Alps 203 (ed. 1), Ruining from the cliffs, the deafening load Tumbles. 1820Shelley Vision of Sea 6 She sees the black trunks of the waterspouts spin And bend, as if Heaven was ruining in. 1847Tennyson Princ. ii. 320 Let not your prudence, dearest, drowse,..for fear This whole foundation ruin. 1872Howells Wedding Journ. (1892) 177 The road..is unguarded by any sort of parapet.., and carriages go ruining over the brink from time to time.
6. To come to ruin; to be brought to poverty; to be overwhelmed by failure.
1596Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxiii. (1602) 303 Religion, Realmes, and all haue ruin'd then. 1627E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1686) 151, I yield, and will sit still and ruine. 1659Milton Rupt. Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 404 Unless these things..be once settl'd, in my fear, which God avert, we instantly ruin. 1691Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 11 We may Trade,..and grow poor by it..; if to this we are idle,..we shall ruin the faster. |