• Англо-русский словарь

  ruin

  1. [ʹru:ın] n (сущ.)

  1. 1) гибель, крушение

  Примеры

  the ruin of one's hopes - крушение надежд

  2) разорение, крах

  Примеры

  to bring to ruin - довести до гибели /до краха/; разорить; погубить

  ruin stares him in the face - он на грани разорения

  2. pl (множ.ч.) развалины, руины

  Примеры

  to lie in ruins - лежать в развалинах

  to lay a town in ruins - превратить город в развалины

  the ruins of Rome - римские руины

  3. 1) тк. sing (ед.ч.) пагубное, вредное влияние; причина гибели

  Примеры

  gambling was his ruin /the ruin of him/ - азартная игра его погубила

  2) обесчещение (женщины)

  4. сл. джин низкого качества (обыкн. blue ruin, mother's ruin)

  2. [ʹru:ın] v (глаг.)

  1. 1) разрушать; уничтожать

  Примеры

  the storm ruined the crops - буря уничтожила урожай

  2) портить, губить

  Примеры

  to ruin one's career [one's life] - погубить свою карьеру [свою жизнь]

  to ruin smb.'s reputation - погубить чью-л. репутацию

  3) обесчестить (женщину)

  2. разорять

  Примеры

  to ruin oneself - разориться

  he was ruined by his own extravagance - он разорился из-за своей расточительности

  3. преим. поэт. рухнуть

Английский толковый словарь

Синонимы,антонимы

Синонимы: ruin;разорение, крах|failure;провал, неудача|breakdown;крах|downfall;упадок|bankruptcy;банкротство, несостоятельность|insolvency;банкротство, несостоятельность|bust;банкротство, разорение|devastation;разорение, растрата
Синонимы: ruin n.
1 downfall, destruction, devastation, havoc, breakdown, breakup, dbcle, collapse, fall, disintegration, ruination, dissolution, wiping out, failure, decay, undoing, end; conquest, defeat, overthrow; bankruptcy, liquidation, failure: Alexander was 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: Who was the libertine who brought about the ruin of Lord Harecombe's daughter?
3 nemesis, curse, end, bane, curse: That boy will be my ruin!
4 gin, mother's ruin, blue ruin, Slang rot-gut: After eating, 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 each other.
6 ruins. debris, wreckage, fragments, rubble, remains: He stood among the ruins of the burnt-out house wondering what to do next. She was trying to piece together the ruins of her disastrous marriage.

--v.
7 destroy, devastate, demolish, annihilate, dissolve, wipe out, 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 entire centre of the city.
8 spoil, disfigure, damage, botch, mess up, make a mess of, mar, uglify: The county office building completely ruins the Aylesbury skyline.
9 spoil, destroy, wreck, nullify, damage, harm, hurt, impair, poison, Slang louse up, screw up, put the kibosh on, US bollix up, Taboo slang chiefly Brit make a balls-up of: I think that your behaviour at the office party may just have ruined your prospects for promotion.
10 bankrupt, pauperize, impoverish, reduce to penury or poverty or destitution or indigence: Paying off the loan virtually ruined me.
11 violate, deflower, ravish, seduce, lead astray, dishonour, defile, corrupt, debase, defile: She claimed that it was the local squire who ruined her, despite evidence to the contrary.