| 释义 |
ruin /rŭˈin or rooˈin/ noun- Downfall
- Collapse
- Overthrow
- Complete destruction
- Wreck
- Loss of fortune or means
- Bankruptcy
- Undoing
- Seduction or loss of chastity
- A downfallen, collapsed, wrecked or irretrievably damaged state (often in pl)
- The cause of a person's ruin
- Broken-down remains, esp of a building (often in pl)
- Devastation
- Inferior gin (esp as blue ruin and mother's ruin; slang)
transitive verb- To reduce or bring to ruin
- To spoil
intransitive verb (archaic)- To fall headlong
- To go to ruin
ORIGIN: L ruīna, from ruere to tumble down ruˈinable adjective ruˈinate transitive verb - To ruin, to destroy (Shakespeare)
- To demolish (archaic)
- To reduce to poverty (archaic)
- To fling headlong (Spenser; reflexive)
adjective (archaic)- In ruins
- Ruined
ruināˈtion noun - The act of ruining
- The state of being ruined
ruˈined adjective ruˈiner noun ruˈining noun and adjective ruˈinous adjective - Fallen to ruins
- Decayed
- Bringing ruin
- (of noise) of or resembling crashing (Milton)
ruˈinously adverb ruˈinousness noun ruin agate or ruin marble noun Agate or marble with irregular markings like ruins |