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Definition of ruin : 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
4. The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
5. The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
6. 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.
7. To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

Synonyms:

fracture, bust, leftover, break down, wrecking, upon, reproach, nail, ravish, let out, destroyer, crack, revile, ruining, come apart, overthrow, erupt, maltreat, razing, snap off, fall apart, check, debris, stop, defile, unwrap, develop, bump, break out, split up, injure, reveal, ill-treat, rubble, smash, soften, discover, infract, give, relegate, better, impose on _or_ oppress, smash up, slander, divulge, misuse, intermit, break away, recrudesce, fall, laying waste, collapse, pervert, decrepitude, die, help, break in, persecute, malign, vilify, aggrieve, fail, discontinue, vitiate, burst, founder, impair, go against, abuse, molest, destroy, wrong, deflower, breach, break off, expose, disclose, break, bankrupt, destruction, transgress, dash, ruination, split, conk out, wrack, give out, go bad, remains, demote, separate, undoing, fall in, go, dampen, wear out, boom, vestige, put down, cave in, blast, pause, part, demolition, let on, get out, disparage, damp, demolish, get around, break dance, offend, ill-use, destruct, misemploy, wrecker, dilapidation, downfall, bang up, vituperate, violate, kick downstairs, wear, precipitation, victimize, bane, prostitute, havoc, give way, devastation, weaken, give away, harm, interrupt, extinction, defame, ruins, bring out, rail at, crush

damage (part of speech: verb)

depredate, waste, mar, rend, pillage, ransack, wreak havoc, spoil, ravage, vandalize, damage, despoil, lay waste

ruin (part of speech: noun)

collision, landslide, apocalypse, wreckage, failure, breakdown, break-up, wreck, debacle, shipwreck

loss (part of speech: noun)

dispossession, erosion, debit, loss, penalty, exhaustion, deprivation, divestiture, setback, decrease, dissipation, expropriation, privation, depletion, forfeiture, shrinkage, decrement, attrition, dissolution

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