ruin 是什么意思？ruin 的含义 - 柯林高阶英语学习词典 - 在线工具

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense ruins , present participle ruining , past tense, past participle ruined

1. verb

To ruin something means to severely harm, damage, or spoil it.

My wife was ruining her health through worry. [VERB noun]

Entire villages have been washed away. Roads and bridges have been destroyed and crops ruined. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: destroy, devastate, wreck, trash [slang] More Synonyms of ruin

2. verb

To ruin someone means to cause them to no longer have any money.

She accused him of ruining her financially with his taste for the high life. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: bankrupt, break, cripple, impoverish More Synonyms of ruin

3. uncountable noun

Ruin is the state of no longer having any money.

The farmers say recent inflation has driven them to the brink of ruin.

Synonyms: bankruptcy, poverty, insolvency, penury More Synonyms of ruin

4. uncountable noun

Ruin is the state of being severely damaged or spoiled, or the process of reaching this state.

The vineyards were falling into ruin.

She wasn't going to let her plans go to ruin.

Synonyms: disrepair, decay, disintegration, ruination More Synonyms of ruin

5. plural noun

The ruins of something are the parts of it that remain after it has been severely damaged or weakened.

The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire. [+ of]

He stood very still, staring in at the ruins of his work.

6. countable noun [usually plural]

The ruins of a building are the parts of it that remain after the rest has fallen down or been destroyed.

One dead child was found in the ruins almost two hours after the explosion.

There's only the mountain in this direction, and higher up an old ruin, an abandoned castle.

7. See also ruined

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