Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - ruin
Ruin
ruin
n. & v. --n. 1 a destroyed or wrecked state. 2 a person's or thing's downfall or elimination (the ruin of my hopes). 3 a the complete loss of one's property or position (bring to ruin). b a person who has suffered ruin. 4 (in sing. or pl.) the remains of a building etc. that has suffered ruin (an old ruin; ancient ruins). 5 a cause of ruin (will be the ruin of us). --v. 1 tr. a bring to ruin (your extravagance has ruined me). b utterly impair or wreck (the rain ruined my hat). 2 tr. (esp. as ruined adj.) reduce to ruins. 3 intr. poet. fall headlong or with a crash. Phrases and idioms in ruins 1 in a state of ruin. 2 completely wrecked (their hopes were in ruins). Etymology: ME f. OF ruine f. L ruina f. ruere fall
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~a, from ruere to rush headlong, fall, collapse Date: 12th century 1. a falling down ; collapse , physical, moral, economic, or social collapse, 2. the state of being ~ed, the remains of something destroyed, a cause of destruction, 4. the action of destroying, laying waste, or wrecking, damage, injury, a ~ed building, person, or object, ~ate adjective ~ate transitive verb II. verb Date: 1585 transitive verb to reduce to ~s ; devastate, 2. to damage irreparably, bankrupt, impoverish , to subject to frustration, failure, or disaster , intransitive verb to become ~ed, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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