Ruin

Definition: Ruin

Ruin

Noun

1. The state of being decayed or destroyed.

2. A ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins".

3. The process of becoming dilapidated.

4. An event that results in destruction.

5. Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation.

6. Destruction achieved by wrecking something.

Verb

1. Destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up".

2. Destroy or cause to fail: "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election".

3. Reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!".

4. Reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ruin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Satire

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ruin

Adversity

Losing game; falling; Verb: fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness; undoing; extremity; ruin; (destruction).

Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.

Danger

Leap in the dark; (rashness); road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni, hairbreadth escape.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash;

Destroying; Verb: demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition; (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, razzia; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation; (extraction); beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation; (deterioration); sabotage.

Drunkenness

Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres.

Evil

Disaster, accident, casualty; mishap; (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin; (destruction); adversity.

Failure

Fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck; (destruction); deathblow; bankruptcy; (nonpayment).

Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).

Poverty

Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).

Render poor; Adjective: impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty; pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.

Crosswords: Ruin

Danish (ruin), Dutch (gelding), German (bane, breakup, decay, ruin, undoing), Spanish (dastardly, mean, villainous), Swedish (ruin, ruination, wreck).

Laney, sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

Unbiddable, ungovernable--like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus.)

Careful Bill, you'll give yourself a heart attack and ruin my vacation (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.)

I wash born here, an I wash raised here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswaglin' cracker croaker is gonna ruin me bishen cutter (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger)

Papa said, Willie you'll ruin my home (Limbo Rock/Hand Jive; performing artist: Brave Combo)

I hear the voice of rage and ruin. (BAD MOON RISING; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

I'll ruin everything you are (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie)

He's crossed his heart now all roads lead to ruin (Never all there; performing artist: General Public)

And it's been the ruin of many young poor boys (House of the Rising Sun; performing artist: The Animals)

Invitation to Ruin (1968)

How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life) (1968)

The Rocky Road to Ruin (1943)

Rolling to Ruin (1916)

Pimple's Road to Ruin (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dark Tide II: Ruin (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ruin Explorers (reference)

• Ruin Explorers : Part II (reference)

• Ruin Explorers, Vol. 1: Tales From the Crypt (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• How to Ruin Everything (reference)

• Julie Ruin (reference)

• Road to Ruin [Expanded] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A Danish windwill ruin at sunset on the northeast end of St. Croix. Buck Island Reef National Monument is in the background. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View from Danish windmill ruin of Buck Island Reef National Monument. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Escalante Ruin, Kiva Stabilization. Credit: Unknown.

Settlers' ruin, old stone house, in southern New Mexico, located in Soledad Canyon, near Las Cruces, NM. Credit: Rena Gutierrez.

Don't let Aids ruin your life. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Temple (?) ruin, Tivoli, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress.

He knew all at once that he himself had wrought this ruin. Credit: Library of Congress.

If they don't watch out they're gonna ruin it!. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Ride to ruin / Bellew. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ruin of tabby (shell) construction, St. Mary's, Georgia / Walker Evans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants. (Second Treatise of Government)

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. (reference)

The awful ruin of Europe, with all its vanished glories, and of large parts of Asia glares us in the eyes. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The framework of his nature, originally strong and massive, was not yet crumbled into ruin.

Fauchelevent had seen this mere artisan grow rich, while he himself, a professional man, had been going to ruin.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind

They mock and jeer at the lost souls whom they dragged down to ruin.

Then he put on the cap, and by pulling started the future ruin of the visor

Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Put simply, depression can ruin a person's life, but treatment is effective. (references)

Business

It is illegal to organize boycotts with the sole purpose to ruin a competitor. (references)

Due to non-existent or extremely limited risk pooling in rural areas, rural residents can face financial ruin from a severe medical condition. (references)

Economic History

Estonia

By the 1970s, national concerns, including worries about ecological ruin, became the major theme of dissent in Estonia. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Due to pilferage, ignorance, and neglect, the country's infrastructure--electrical, water, road, transportation, and health--fell into ruin. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Brother of ruin or folly

Brings and causes ruin

Persuasion of ruin

Expressions using "ruin": be ruin of smb. ♦ blue ruin ♦ bring to ruin ♦ draw ruin upon oneself ♦ fall into ruin ♦ gambler's ruin ♦ go to rack and ruin ♦ go to ruin ♦ go to wrack and ruin ♦ on the brink of ruin ♦ rack and ruin ♦ road to ruin ♦ ruin marble ♦ ruin of my hopes ♦ ruin one's health ♦ ruin oneself by drink ♦ ruin smb.'s reputation ♦ run to ruin ♦ wrack and ruin. Additional references.

Beginning with "ruin": ruin-studded, ruin-theory.

Ending with "ruin": semi-ruin.

Albanian

rrënoja (rubble, wrack, wreck), rrënoj (beggar, collapse, depredate, destroy, do for, exhaust, ravage, vandalize, waste), rrënim (desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissolution, downfall, havoc, rack, ravage), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), shkatërrim (breakdown, breakup, collapse, decay, decimation, demolition, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, dissolution, downfall, havoc, mess, ravage, wrack, wreck, wrecking), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), gërmadhë (collapse, demolition, destruction, devastation, pillaging, ravaging, wrack), fundos (sink, subside, swamp, weight down), fik (destroy, douse, extinguish, fig, fig tree, out, slake, switch off, turn off, ungear, wipe out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خراب (bane, decay, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, havoc, perdition, rack, ravage, ruination, undoing, wrack, wreck, wreckage), ‏دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck), ‏دمار (desolation, destruction, devastation, havoc, rack, ruination, subversion, wrack, wreck), ‏أذي, ‏أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, scotch, scuttle, torpedo), ‏ألحق الضرر ب, ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), ‏إنهيار (avalanche, breakdown, collapse, fall, plunge, shower, slump, smash, split up), ‏إفتقر (come down), ‏بقايا (left over, oddments, odds and ends, remain, remains, remnant, residue, rubble, scrap, scrapings, snippet, tag, vestige), ‏خربة, أَثَر (influence, trace, tradition), ‏سبب الخراب, ‏سلب المرأة عفافها, ‏تدمير (annihilation, demolition, destruction, devastation, mayhem, overthrow, subversion, wreck), ‏تخريب (devastation, sabotage, subversion, vandalism, wastefulness), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏تهدم (collapse, crumbling, falling, molder, moulder), ‏فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, want), ‏فلس (break, breaking, crash, go bankrupt, mite, peg out, smash), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

озлочестяване, падение (abjection, come down, disgrace, fall, lapse), погубвам (destroy, kill, subvert, undo), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, rot, taint, ulcer), прелъстяване (seduction), провал (bankruptcy, collapse, downfall, failure, mucker, sucks, unsuccess), жалки останки, загивам (die, fall, lose, perish, succumb, wither), опропастявам (devastate, wrack), опропастяване (undoing), падам през глава, озлочестявам, съсипвам (bust, prostrate, scathe, spifflicate, total, wear down, wear out, wrack), гибел (death, disaster, doom, fate, grave, perdition, ruination, shipwreck, subversion, undoing), фалит (crash, failure, smash, smash up), разорение (desolation, destruction, devastation, doom, ravage, ruination), разорявам (beggar, bring to ruin, bust, go bust, ravage, waste), развалина (old tub, wreck), разрушавам (destroy, disrupt, havoc, pull down, ravage, take down, throw down, unbuild), разруха (rack, ruination, wrack), руша се (come down, erode), сгромолясвам се, унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), обезчестявам (defile, deflower, dishonor, dishonour, outrage). (various references)

Catalan

ruina. (various references)

Chinese 

废墟, 僨 (destroy, instigate), 敗壞 (corrupt, undermine), 殘 (cruel, destroy, disabled, incomplete, injure, oppressive, savage, spoil), 毀滅 (destroy, perish). (various references)

Czech

ruina, rozpadnout se (come apart, disintegrate, fall apart, go bust, go to pieces), zpustošit (devastate, foray, ravage, waste), znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), zkáza (annihilation, corruption, destruction, perdition, pulverization, subversion, undoing), zřícenina (wreck), záhuba (bane, doom, perdition, undoing), troska (wreck), pokazit (blemish, damage, hurt, unsettle, vitiate), pád (case, collapse, crash, downfall, drop, fall, plump, plunge, spill, tumble). (various references)

Danish

ruinere. (various references)

Dutch

te gronde richten (destroy), ruïneren (destroy). (various references)

Esperanto

ruino, ruinigi, pereigi (destroy). (various references)

Farsi 

فناکردن , فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Rot, Spoil, Taint, Vitiate), نابودی (Naught), ویرانه , تباهی (Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Destruction, Ruination, Spoil), خرابی (Decay, Demolition, Destruction, Godsend, Havoc, Ruination, Wrack, Wreck, Wreckage), خرابه , خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck). (various references)

Finnish

raunioittaa (lay in ruins), raiskata (destroy, rape), raunio (wreck), rappio (decay, decline), tuhota (annihilate, damage, destroy, devastate, lay waste, undo, wreck), tuho (annihilation, damage, destruction, fall, havoc, ravage), tärvellä (destroy, spoil), saattaa häviöön, turmio, turma (destruction), häviö (defeat, destruction, downfall, fall, loss), turmella (damage, deprave, destroy, do damage, harm, hurt, injure, mar, spoil), pilata (damage, injure, mar, spoil), perikato (destruction), hukka (destruction, loss, waste), hävitys (destruction, devastation, havoc, ravage). (various references)

French

ruine (ruination), ruiner, abîmer. (various references)

Frisian

ferrinnewearje. (various references)

German

verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruination, ruining, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck), Ruine (hulk, ruins, shell), Ruin (bane, breakup, decay, undoing), ruinieren (blast, break, destroy, dilapidate, Mar, mess up, scuttle, spoil, to ruin, undo, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

χαλώ (break down, give out, go off, Mar, scuff, spoil, unmake, vitiate). (various references)

Hebrew 

להרוס (bane, blight, demolish, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, shatter, tear down, wreck), הריסה (demolition, destruction), כליון (annihilation, destruction, extinction, tabes), אבדון (abyss, destruction, doom, hell, perdition), אבדן (destruction, loss), אבוד (forfeiture, gone, hopeless, loss, lost, missing, waste), הרס (bane, destroy, destruction, havoc, ravage, wrack, wreckage), לרושש (clean out, destroy, impoverish), מפולת (collapse, debris, fall), להחריב (destroy, devastate, tear down), להאביד (destroy), להשם (alarm, destroy, devastate, horrify), לקפח (deprive, pervert, strike, take by force), לשבור (break, destroy, fracture, rend, shatter to pieces, snap), לשחת (destroy, hurt, kill, spoil, waste), חורבה (drought, dump, ruined house, waste). (various references)

Hungarian

rom, végromlás (perdition), tönkremenés (crash, doom, smash, wrack, wreck, wrecking), romlás (addlement, bane, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, deterioration, failure, perdition, rack, undoing, wreck, wrecking), pusztulás (decay, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissolution, havoc, perdition, rack, wrack, wreck), omladék (scree), összeomlás (breakdown, bust up, cataclysm, collapse, débâcle, debacle, mouldering, smash, wreckage). (various references)

Indonesian

menggempur (batter, storm), mencelakakan (bring misfortune on), membobolkan (pierce), kejatuhan (drop). (various references)

Italian

rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, scuttle, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), rovina (bad, bane, bust, decay, destruction, disrepair, havoc, rack, ravage, rot, ruination, smash up, undoing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荒廃, 疲弊 (exhaustion, impoverishment), 没落 (collapse, fall), 滅亡 (collapse, destruction, downfall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいぼう (collapse, downfall, flood prevention), すいめつ (decline, downfall), くずれ (collapse, crumbling), ひへい (exhaustion, impoverishment), ぼつらく (collapse, fall), かたき (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, rival), こうはい (crossbreeding, cross-fertilization, destiny, good dividend, good offices, good spouse, halo, junior, married couple, mating, one's attitude, rise and fall, spouse, state of affairs, your trouble), れいらく (downfall, falling into straitened circumstances), あた (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge), めつぼう (collapse, destruction, downfall), あだ (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, frivolous, futile, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, transient, vain), けいがい (framework, mere skeleton, pleasure of meeting, wreck), はいざん (abandoned mine, decline, defeat, down-and-out), はめつ (destruction, fall). (various references)

Korean 

파멸. (various references)

Manx

tholtanagh (broken down, crumbling, crumbling of house, delapidated, falling, ramshackle, tumble-down), tholtan (derelict), stroiltys, striggaltys, milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, mar, muff, murder, spoil, spoiling, tarnish), cur naardey (annihilate, confound), cur mow (annihilate, blot out, decay, destroy), creiu, craiuaig, craght (depredation, devastation, disaster, foray, loot, massacre, pillage, plunder, spoil, vandalism), craghey (depredate, filibuster, maraud, massacre, overrun, pillage, pirate, plunder, ravage, ravish, scoop, spoil), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, small change, stump, violation, wane), boghlaneagh (tumbledown, tumbledown as hedge), baare (apex, cap, climax, crest of wave, curl, end, film on milk, interval, point, summit, surface, tip, toe, top). (various references)

Papiamen

ruiná, ruina. (various references)

Pig Latin

uinray.(various references)

Polish

rujnować, ruina. (various references)

Portuguese

ruína (breakdown, cloud-burst, collapse, confusion, crash, curse, decay, destruction, deterioration, devastation, dilapidation, disrepair, doom, downfall, lurch, overthrow, overturn, perdition, rack, ravage, ruination, shipwreck, smash, undoing, upset, waste, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Romanian

ruinå, ruinã (bankruptcy, break up, burst up, decay, perdition, ruination, shipwreck, wreck), ruina (bankrupt, blast, blight, crock, destroy, dilapidate, impair, Mar, overturn, ravage, sink, undo), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, spill, throw away, waste), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, blight, break down, crack, crumble, crush, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, raze, shatter, throw down, wreck), dãrâmãturi (carcas, remnant, rubbish, wreck, wreckage), dãrãpãnare (decay, deterioration, dilapidation), decãdea (decay, decline, deteriorate, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, rot, run to seed), dezonora (attaint, blot, bring reproach upon, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul, pollute, spot), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), distrugere (damnation, demolition, destruction, eradication, erosion, holocaust, obliteration, ravage, ruination, spoliation, strip), nãrui (confound, crumble, dash, defeat, destroy, raze, slip, snuff), cãdea (appear, arrive, climb down, collapse, come down, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, founder, go under, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip, vote down), pieire (death, destruction, fate), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, shatter, shiver, smash, split), prãda (despoil, flay, fleece, gut, knock off, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, sack, spoil), prãpãdenie (damage, danger, destruction), sãrãci (beggar, come down in the world, depauperate, impoverish), scãpãta (decline, go down, go under, set), se prãbuşi (come down with a run, crash, crumble, curl up, fall, fall drop through, fall in, fall to the ground, founder, go to pieces, subside, wreck), se ruina (break, crash, decay, dilapidate, fall, flatten, go under), nãruire (wreck). (various references)

Russian 

руина, разрушать крах, крах (crash, down, wreck), губить (overwhelm, play havoc, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, ulcerate), гибель (death, doom, perdition, ruination, undoing), загубить (waste), причина гибели, доконать. (various references)

Scottish

sgrios (destroy, destroyed, destruction, ruin : air sgrios). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ruinirati, ruina (wreck), ruševina (wreck), upropastiti (blight, destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, murder, screw up, spoil, vitiate, wrack), slom (break, breakdown, collapse, debacle, fracture, labefaction, wreck), propast (bane, calamity, downfall, failure, perdition, precipice, ruination, smash, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Spanish

ruina (bankruptcy, destruction, downfall, rape, ruination, undoing, wreck), arruinar (bane, bankrupt, beggar, blast, blight, break, dilapidate, leak, mess up, murder, scuttle, tear, throw over, wash out, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

ruinera (bring low, bring to ruin, do up, undo), ruin (ruination, wreck), fördärva (corrupt, deflower, deprave, destroy, flaw, foozle, hash, mar, perish, pervert, queer, undo, vitiate), fördärv (bane, blight, corruption, destruction, fate, perdition, perversity, taint, undoing). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้พินาศ, ทำให้ล่มจม, ซากปรักหักพัง, ความพินาศ, ความล่มจม. (various references)

Turkish

rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, stultify, wreck), iflas ettirmek (bankrupt, bust), batış (bankruptcy, set, setting, sinking, submerging), batırma (immersion, jab, sinking, submersion), batırmak (bankrupt, break, bring to ruin, dip, immerse, jab, plunge, prickle, sink, stick, submerge, swamp), berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, screw up, spoil, vitiate), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), harabe (derelict, desolation, wrack, wreck, wrecks), ırzına geçmek (force, interfere with, rape, ravish, violate), iflas (bankruptcy, bust, crash, failure, in carey street, insolvency, smash, smash up), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), kızlığını bozmak (deflorate, deflower, knock off), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), mahvoluş, yıkılış (decadence, decay), yıkım (bad, bane, blight, cropper, damnation, death, debacle, demolition, disaster, havoc, ravage, undoing, wrecking), yıkıntı (debris, shambles, wrack, wreck, wreckage, wrecks), harap etmek (destroy, devastate, dilapidate, make havoc of, play havoc with, ravage, shatter, tear up, waste, work havoc). (various references)

Turkmen 

zaяalamak (pollute, spoil), bozmak (erase). (various references)

Ukrainian

руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, cast down, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, shake down, wrack, wreck), розорення (devastation, ruination, waste), крах (bankruptcy, burst up, collapse, come down, crash, defeat, destruction, disruption, frustration, ruination, wreckage), загибель (bad, bane, blasting, catastrophe, collapse, death, destruction, doom, ending, fate, overthrow, perdition, undoing, wreck, wreckage), занапащати (overwhelm, pickle), збезчестити (whore). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thất bại (cheese, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness), sự suy đồi sự tiêu tan sự phá sản, sự đổ nát, nguyên nhân phá sản, cảnh điêu tàn, cảnh đổ nát. (various references)

Welsh

murddun (ruins), andwyo (harm, spoil, undo), adfeiliad (decay), adfail. (various references)

adlide, adlident, adlidet, adlidetur, adlidit, adlisisti, adlisos, affligo, attero, cinere, cinerem, cineres, cineri, cineribus, cineris, cinerum, cinis, cladem, clades, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, concisam, concisas, concise, concisus, confudisset, confudisti, confudistis, confudit, confundam, confundamur, confundamus, confundantur, confundar, confundaris, confundas, confundat, confundatur, confunde, confundebat, confundemini, confundens, confundentur, confundere, confunderis, confundet, confundetur, confundimini, confundit, confunditis, confunditur, confundor, confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus, consepulti, contaminabatur, contaminabis, contaminabit, contaminabitur, contaminabunt, contaminabuntur, contaminare, contaminarentur, contaminastis, contaminata, contaminatae, contaminate, contaminatum, contaminatus, contaminaverit, contaminaverunt, contaminavi, contaminavit, contaminent, contaminetur, dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque, destruam, destruantur, destruas, destruatur, destructa, destructae, destructam, destructi, destructum, destrue, destruendi, destruens, destruent, destruentes, destruentur, destruere, destrueret, destrues, destruesque, destruet, destruetur, destrui, destruimus, destruit, destruo, destruxerant, destruxerit, destruxerunt, destruxeruntque, destruxi, destruxisti, destruxistis, destruxit, destruxitque, dilapidare, diruo, disperdam, disperdamque, disperdamus, disperdant, disperdas, disperdat, disperde, disperdendam, disperdens, disperdentes, disperdentur, disperdere, disperderem, disperderent, disperderes, disperderet, disperderit, disperdes, disperdet, disperdi, disperdiderunt, disperdidit, disperdimini, disperdisti, disperdit, disperdite, disperdunt, eversio, eversos, eversus, evertam, evertant, evertat, evertens, evertent, evertentes, evertere, everterent, everteret, evertet, evertimus, evertisti, evertit, everto, exitium, funere, funeris, incontaminatam, incontaminati, incontaminatos, incontaminatum, interitu, interitum, interitus, letum, obruent, obruentur, obruerunt, obruet, obruetur, obrutus, perdam, perdamque, perdamus, perdas, perdat, perdatis, perde, perdendas, perdendi, perdendos, perdendum, perdens, perdentur, perdere, perderent, perderes, perderet, perdes, perdet, perdetur, perdideris, perdiderit, perdiderunt, perdidi, perdidisti, perdidit, perdis, perdit, perdita, perditam, perditi, perditio, perditione, perditionem, perditionibus, perditionis, perditis, perditorum, perditum, perditura, perditus, perdo, perdunt, perniciem, perversa, perversae, perversarum, perverse, perversi, perverso, perversorum, perversus, pervertat, pervertere, perverteret, perverterunt, pervertes, pervertet, pervertit, pervertitis, pessum dare, prosterno, ruens, ruent, ruentes, ruentesque, ruentibus, ruere, ruerit, ruerunt, ruet, ruina, ruique, ruisse, ruit, ruituri, rutam, sepelevit, sepeli, sepeliam, sepeliant, sepelias, sepeliat, sepeliebas, sepeliebat, sepeliendos, sepeliendum, sepelient, sepelientes, sepelientibus, sepelientur, sepelieris, sepelieritis, sepelierunt, sepelieruntque, sepelies, sepeliet, sepelietur, sepelire, sepelirent, sepeliret, sepelis, sepelissent, sepelistis, sepelite, sepelivi, sepelivit, sepulta, sepulto, sepultos, sepultura, sepulturae, sepulturam, sepulturaque, sepulturas, sepultus, sepultusque, subversio, subversione, subversionem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ruin": ruinable, ruinate, ruinated, ruinates, ruinating, ruination, ruinations, ruined, ruiner, ruiners, ruing, ruining, ruinous, ruinously, ruinousness, ruinousnesses, ruins. (additional references)

Words ending with "ruin": bruin. (additional references)

Words containing "ruin": accruing, bruins, construing, embruing, imbruing, misconstruing, pruinose, truing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ruin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: druin, Duijn, duin, fruin, Grudin, nuin, raiun, reink, Reuan, rewin, rhin, rhinn, rin, rinn, rinq, riu, rium, rlin, rocin, rodin, rohin, roih, roij, Roine, roink, roni, ronin, Roudin, roxin, rsin, ruah, ruan, Rudini, ruein, ruen, rufin, ruhn, rui, ruib, ruic, ruien, ruil, ruim, ruine, ruint, ruix, ruiz, rulind, rumin, rumn, runim, runix, runn, ruon, rupin, Rurik, rurn, rusian, rutin, Ruvina, ruzi, ruzin, rwin, Ryukin, Ryumin, truin, uin, uinl, uran, uren, urian, urin, uriv, wuin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rin, run, urn.

-2 letters: in, nu, un.

+1 letter: bruin, burin, incur, inure, inurn, purin, ruing, ruins, runic, rutin, unrig, unrip, urine.

+2 letters: anuria, anuric, brucin, bruins, burins, burnie, crinum, curing, diuron, durian, during, durion, incurs, injure, injury, inpour, inrush, insure, inturn, inured, inures, inurns, junior, lunier, luring, murein, murine, muring, nutria, punier, purine, purins, purlin, requin, ruined, ruiner, ruling, rumina, rusine, rutins, triune, truing, turnip, unfair, ungird, ungirt, unhair, uniter, unrigs, unripe, unrips, untrim, urania, uranic, urchin, urging, urinal, urines, ursine.