Sự đổ nát, sự hư hại nghiêm trọng, sự phá hủy nghiêm trọng

to bumble (lie, lay) in ruin

đổ nát

Sự tiêu tan

the ruin of one's hope

sự tiêu tan hy vọng

Sự phá sản, sự thất bại; nguyên nhân phá sản, nguyên nhân đổ nát, nguyên nhân thất bại

to bring somebody to ruin

làm cho ai bị phá sản

to cause the ruin of...

gây ra sự đổ nát của...

Tàn tích (của những cái gì đã đổ nát..)

the ruins of Rome

tàn tích của thành La mã

in ruins

trong tình trạng hư hại, trong tình trạng đổ nát nghiêm trọng

Làm hỏng, làm tan nát, tàn phá

Làm suy nhược, làm xấu đi

to ruin someone's health

làm suy nhược sức khoẻ của ai

to ruin someone's reputation

làm mất thanh danh của ai

Làm phá sản

to ruin oneself in gambling

phá sản vì cờ bạc

(thông tục) hủy hoại, dụ dỗ, cám dỗ, làm hư hỏng (con gái)

Hủy hoại, làm hư hỏng (cái gì)

sự suy tàn

hủy hoại

đống đổ nát

làm hư hỏng

sự phá sản

tàn phá

tàn tích

N.

Downfall, destruction, devastation, havoc, breakdown,breakup, d‚bƒcle, collapse, fall, disintegration, ruination,dissolution, wiping out, failure, decay, undoing, end; conquest,defeat, overthrow; bankruptcy, liquidation, failure: Alexanderwas responsible for the ruin of the Persian empire.Overwhelming debts spelt Theo's financial ruin. 2 degradation,dishonour, debasement, defilement, corruption, vitiation,seduction, degrading, dishonouring, debasing, defiling,corrupting, vitiating, seducing; deflowering, defloration: Whowas the libertine who brought about the ruin of Lord Harecombe'sdaughter? 3 nemesis, curse, end, bane, curse: That boy will bemy ruin!

Gin, mother's ruin, blue ruin, Slang rot-gut: Aftereating, we sat down and polished off a bottle of mother's ruin.5 hag, witch, crone, beldam; dotard, (old) fogy or fogey,fossil, fuddy-duddy, antique, Brit OAP (= 'old-age pensioner'),Chiefly US retiree, Colloq (old) geezer, wreck, Slang dodo:It's hard to understand what those two old ruins see in eachother.

Ruins. debris, wreckage, fragments, rubble, remains:He stood among the ruins of the burnt-out house wondering whatto do next. She was trying to piece together the ruins of herdisastrous marriage.

V.

Destroy, devastate, demolish, annihilate, dissolve, wipeout, undo, overthrow, lay waste, raze, shatter, wreck, crush,flatten, wreak havoc (up)on, reduce to nothing or naught,pulverize, smash, bring to ruin: The bomb ruined the entirecentre of the city.

Spoil, disfigure, damage, botch, mess up,make a mess of, mar, uglify: The county office buildingcompletely ruins the Aylesbury skyline.

Spoil, destroy,wreck, nullify, damage, harm, hurt, impair, poison, Slang louseup, screw up, put the kibosh on, US bollix up, Taboo slangchiefly Brit make a balls-up of: I think that your behaviour atthe office party may just have ruined your prospects forpromotion. 10 bankrupt, pauperize, impoverish, reduce to penuryor poverty or destitution or indigence: Paying off the loanvirtually ruined me.

Violate, deflower, ravish, seduce, leadastray, dishonour, defile, corrupt, debase, defile: She claimedthat it was the local squire who ruined her, despite evidence tothe contrary.

N. & v.

N.

A destroyed or wrecked state.

A person's orthing's downfall or elimination (the ruin of my hopes).

A thecomplete loss of one's property or position (bring to ruin). ba person who has suffered ruin.

(in sing. or pl.) the remainsof a building etc. that has suffered ruin (an old ruin; ancientruins).

A cause of ruin (will be the ruin of us).

V.

Tr. a bring to ruin (your extravagance has ruined me). butterly impair or wreck (the rain ruined my hat).

Tr. (esp.as ruined adj.) reduce to ruins.

Intr. poet. fall headlongor with a crash.

Completelywrecked (their hopes were in ruins). [ME f. OF ruine f. L ruinaf. ruere fall]