Overview of verb ruin

The verb ruin has 6 senses

• destroy, ruin -- (destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up")


• ruin -- (destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election")


• bankrupt, ruin, break, smash -- (reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him")


• ruin -- (reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war")


• deflower, ruin -- (deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village")


• ruin -- (fall into ruin)

Overview of adj ruined

The adj ruined has 3 senses

• destroyed, ruined -- (destroyed physically or morally)


• done for, ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up -- (doomed to extinction)


• finished, ruined -- (brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically")