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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   ruin

   • IPA[ˈro͞oˌin]

   美式

   • n.
     the physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed；the remains of a building, typically an old one, that has suffered much damage or disintegration
   • v.
     reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration；cause great and usually irreparable damage or harm to; have a disastrous effect on

   • verb: ruin, 3rd person present: ruins, gerund or present participle: ruining, past tense: ruined, past participle: ruined

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed a large white house falling into gentle ruin
   • ▪ the remains of a building, typically an old one, that has suffered much damage or disintegration the ruins of the castle the church is a ruin now
   • ▪ the disastrous disintegration of someone's life the ruin and heartbreak wrought by alcohol, divorce, and violence
   • ▪ the cause of the disintegration of a person's life or loss of their assets they don't know how to say no, and that's been their ruin
   • ▪ the complete loss of one's money and other assets the financial cost could mean ruin

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration the castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers 同義詞 destroy, devastate, lay waste, leave in ruins, wreak havoc on, ... 更多ravage, leave desolate, raze, demolish, blast, wreck, wipe out, flatten, level, crush, archaicwaste反義詞 rebuild, repair
   • ▪ cause great and usually irreparable damage or harm to; have a disastrous effect on a noisy freeway has ruined village life 同義詞 wreck, destroy, devastate, wreak havoc on, reduce to nothing, ... 更多damage, spoil, mar, injure, blast, blight, smash, shatter, dash, torpedo, scotch, make a mess of, mess up, sabotage, poison, informallouse up, screw up, foul up, put the kibosh on, banjax, do for, blow a hole in, nix, queer, scupper, cock up, dish, muller, euchre, cruel, vulgar slangfuck up, archaicbring to naught反義詞 restore, save
   • ▪ reduce to a state of poverty they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century 同義詞 bankrupt, make bankrupt, cause to go bankrupt, make insolvent, impoverish, ... 更多reduce to penury/destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, wipe out, break, cripple, rarepauperize, beggar
   • 2. literary fall headlong or with a crash carriages go ruining over the brink from time to time

   片語

   • in ruins