(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
(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.
(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(3) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(4) A procedure is described for the rapid determination of putrascine, spermine and spermidine in ruine and whole blood.
(5) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(6) Conference, five years ago this motion would have ruined my life.
(7) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(8) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(9) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
(10) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(11) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
(12) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
(13) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(14) Even the avuncular governor of the Irish central bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, was forced to admit that pumping up to €70bn of taxpayers' money into the ruined banks "doesn't score highly on fairness" when he announced the fifth bailout on Thursday.
(15) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(16) But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company.
(17) His torturers accused him of passing on to British officials information about previous beatings at the hands of state officials and other human rights abuses, to ruin diplomatic relations between the two countries, he said.
(18) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
(19) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(20) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
Ruinous
Definition:
(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
(a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
(a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This would be even larger than the 10:1 ratio that proved so ruinous for Iceland and presents a significant risk for the country's economic stability," it added.
(2) But Valls is relishing a fight, calling Hamon’s ideas “ruinous”, “unachievable promises” and electoral suicide.
(3) Two very different blueprints for the future of Britain's transport network and its economy, but with one tarmac-coated common assumption: that the future inevitably lies in building more airport capacity at the cost of many billions and allowing tens of thousands more flights – at ruinous cost to the environment.
(4) With European leaders also facing a potentially ruinous debt crisis, a leading Wall Street figure described the prospect of a US default as catastrophic.
(5) James Knowles III, the city’s part-time mayor, has repeatedly warned that the costs of implementing the reform agreement – known as a “consent decree”, could be financially ruinous.
(6) The burning question for the climate is whether we can agree to leave half the world’s oil and gas in the ground, as we must if we are to avoid ruinous warming.
(7) Ministers know the decision will be ruinous – in Somalia particularly – but neither they nor Barclays nor the regulatory authorities can summon the courage or the vision to do anything about it.
(8) Quangos also do for governments what the mast did for Ulysses: outsourcing decisions helps them manage ruinous temptations.
(9) When Pedro Rodríguez squandered an opportunity to add a second goal against Germany, it did not feel like a potentially ruinous lapse.
(10) Imagine being a Lithuanian cleaner, for instance, and told that you were part of a swamp, a flood, a ruinous invasion made rhetorically part of something akin, say, to the devastation of the lowlands of Somerset last winter.
(11) The previously ruinous road from Lashkar Gah to the local city of Kandahar has recently been resurfaced - thanks to US money - so the 150 miles can be covered in around three hours.
(12) A climate sceptic, he launched a poster campaign in 2010 to promote his opposition to climate change policies which he described as "Probably unnecessary, Certainly ineffectual, Ruinously expensive."
(13) Scariest of all, Andrew Lilico, chief economist at think tank Policy Exchange, suggested that interest rates might have to rise to 8% if a double-dip is followed by an inflationary boom, a ruinous prospect for many British households.
(14) So disowning Blairism is a major disaster for Labour, though Hyman’s article concedes that Blair’s disconnect from his party base was pretty ruinous.
(15) "There are many devastating stories of how RBS has wrecked good businesses and the ruinous impact this has on the lives of the business owners," said Tomlinson.
(16) The grand folly of monument-driven tourism is over, the lessons expensively, ruinously, learned.
(17) If Ed Miliband really wants to distance himself from this ruinous legacy, he could start by promising to mend the cities torn apart by Pathfinder.
(18) And a reckoning for a ruinous reorganisation that has dragged it down and left it on the brink.” The Tories, who were quick to criticise Miliband for failing to mention the deficit in his speech, intensified the pressure after Labour released a party political broadcast which also did not mention the deficit.
(19) The low-tax jurisdictions you despise are a long-stop against ruinous over-taxation.
(20) This experimentation proved ruinous, and many were retired ignominiously from drug distribution.