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1. Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
   - laying waste, ruin, ruination, wrecking

1. Damage beyond use or repair
   "The tears ruined her make-up"; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!";
   - destroy
    
2. Destroy or cause to fail
   "This behaviour will ruin your chances of winning the election"
    
3. Reduce to bankruptcy
   "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to ruin me!";
   - bankrupt, break, smash
    
4. Reduce to ruins
   "The country lay ruined after the war"
    
5. Fall into ruin
    
6. [archaic] Deprive of virginity
   "This dirty old man ruined several young girls in the village";
   - deflower [archaic]

Derived forms: ruinings

Type of: baffle, bilk [informal], copulate, couple, cross, crumble, decay, desolate, destruction, devastate, devastation, dilapidate, foil, frustrate, impoverish, lay waste, lay waste to, mate, pair, queer [informal], ravage, scotch, scourge, scupper [informal], spoil, thwart, waste

Encyclopedia: Ruin, Iran