ruin's Usage Examples:

In spite, however, of the improvement in trade that ultimately resulted from these measures, there was great depression; in 1825 there was a financial crisis that caused widespread ruin, and in 1826 the misery of the laboring poor led to renewed riots and machinery smashing.

As regards domestic morality, the system offered constant facilities for libertinism, and tended to subvert domestic peace by compromising the dignity and ruining the happiness of the wife.

We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow.

I guess if the operation fails, I'll die anyway, right?His health was ruined by his debaucheries, and a surgical operation became necessary.

Had she seduced him into ruining the test?She could have seduced him.

A portion of old Balvenie Castle, a ruin, is considered to be of Pictish origin, but most of it is in the Scots Baronial.

If you are printing an invitation with large areas of color, will your printer create a solid block, or will it leave uncolored spaces that ruin the effect?For formal parties, choose plain, uncolored lights.

"The town is encompassed by a high wall ruined in many places, and has four gates.

Not only can your wine literally get cooked here because of the intense heat off the oven or stove, but when you cook things it can splatter and ruin the labels from your bottle (if you ever wanted to save one for whatever reason).

Once used, soot is blown into the flat ruining recent redecoration work.

In the neighbourhood of Rhamnus are the remains of two temples that stood side by side, the larger of which was dedicated to Nemesis, the smaller probably to Themis, of which goddess a fine statue was discovered in its ruins in the course of the excavations of the Greek Archaeological Society in 1890.

The escarp of Ehr-Lung was also blown up, and the ruins of the fort were stormed by the 9th division on the 28th of December, though a mere handful of the defenders prolonged the fighting for eight hours and the assailants lost loon men.

Synonyms:

rape, despoil, burn, kick down, ravage, spoil, wreck, destroy, vandalise, bust up, shipwreck, lay waste to, fire, plunder, do a job on, scourge, bust, get, devour, burn down, vandalize, wrack, subvert, wash out, kick in, violate, harry, desolate, waste, devastate, break, explode, consume,

Antonyms:

sell, lose, lend, refuse, repair,