ruin /rŭˈin or rooˈin/

1. Downfall
2. Collapse
3. Overthrow
4. Complete destruction
5. Wreck
6. Loss of fortune or means
7. Bankruptcy
8. Undoing
9. Seduction or loss of chastity
10. A downfallen, collapsed, wrecked or irretrievably damaged state (often in pl)
11. The cause of a person's ruin
12. Broken-down remains, esp of a building (often in pl)
13. Devastation
14. Inferior gin (esp as blue ruin and mother's ruin; slang)

1. To reduce or bring to ruin
2. To spoil

1. To fall headlong
2. To go to ruin

ruˈinable adjective

ruˈinate transitive verb

1. To ruin, to destroy (Shakespeare)
2. To demolish (archaic)
3. To reduce to poverty (archaic)
4. To fling headlong (Spenser; reflexive)

1. In ruins
2. Ruined

ruināˈtion noun

1. The act of ruining
2. The state of being ruined

ruˈined adjective

ruˈiner noun

ruˈining noun and adjective

ruˈinous adjective

1. Fallen to ruins
2. Decayed
3. Bringing ruin
4. (of noise) of or resembling crashing (Milton)

ruˈinously adverb

ruˈinousness noun

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• rattlepate
• rattle-pated
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• rattler
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• rattlesnake
• rattlesnakes
• rattle someone's cage
• rattle someone'the cage
• rattletrap
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• rattlier
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• rattlin
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