n. 25B6; noun
the buildings were saved from ruin : DISINTEGRATION, decay, disrepair, dilapidation, ruination; destruction, demolition, wreckage.
the ruins of a church : REMAINS, remnants, fragments, relics; rubble, debris, wreckage.
electoral ruin for Labour : DOWNFALL, collapse, defeat, undoing, failure, breakdown, ruination; Waterloo.
shopkeepers are facing ruin : BANKRUPTCY, insolvency, penury, poverty, destitution, impoverishment, indigence; failure.
preservation, triumph, wealth.
25B6; verb
don't ruin my plans : WRECK, destroy, spoil, mar, blight, shatter, dash, torpedo, scotch, mess up; sabotage; informal screw up, foul up, put the kibosh on, do for, nix, queer; Brit. informal scupper.
the bank's collapse ruined them all : BANKRUPT, make insolvent, impoverish, pauperize, wipe out, break, cripple; bring someone to their knees.
a country ruined by civil war : DESTROY, devastate, lay waste, ravage; raze, demolish, wreck, wipe out, flatten.
save, rebuild.
25A0; in ruins
the abbey is in ruins : DERELICT, ruined, in disrepair, falling to pieces, dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, decrepit, decaying, ruinous.
his career is in ruins : DESTROYED, ruined, in pieces, in ashes; over, finished; informal in tatters, on the rocks, done for.