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• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹuː.ɪn/, [ˈɹuwɪn]
• 韻: -uːɪn

名詞

ruin (countable and uncountable, plural ruins)

1. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The Veian and the Gabian towirs shall fall, / And one promiscuous ruin cover all; / Nor, after length of years, a stone betray / The place where once the very ruins lay.

   • a. 1812, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon:

     The labour of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:

     Dr. Manuel: No one is saved. The age of humanity is ended. Soon, only ruin and corpses will remain.

   • 2024, David Golinkin, “Naḥem On Tisha B'Av: Is It Permissible To Change The Wording?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 136:

     Not only is Jerusalem not a ruin, but she is at the height of her glory compared to all of Jewish history!

2. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.

   The monastery has fallen into ruin.

3. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.

   Gambling has been the ruin of many.

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     The errors of young men are the ruin of business.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

4. The act of ruining something.

   Synonym: wreckage (formal)

   1. (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
5. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     His ruin startled th’ other steeds.

     The spelling has been modernized.

6. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.

   the ruin of a ship or an army

   the ruin of a constitution or a government

   the ruin of health or hopes

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:

     Oh Portius, is there not some choſen Curſe,
     Some hidden Thunder in the Stores of Heav’n,
     Red with uncommon Wrath, to blaſt the Man
     Who owes his Greatneſs to his Country’s Ruin?

   • 1768, Thomas Gray, The Bard:

     Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!

7. (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.

派生語

動詞

ruin (third-person singular simple present ruins, present participle ruining, simple past and past participle ruined or (dialectal, nonstandard) ruint)

1. (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.

   Synonyms: beggar, destitute, pauperize; see also Thesaurus:impoverish

   With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us!

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us; for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted...

2. To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.

   Synonyms: destroy, fordo, ruinate; see also Thesaurus:destroy

   Antonyms: build, construct, found, produce, unruin

   He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.

3. To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
   • 1857, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Mile-Stone:

     By the fireside there are old men seated, / Seeing ruined cities in the ashes.

4. To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.

   Synonyms: mar, mess up, undo, wreck; see also Thesaurus:spoil

   My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.

5. To make something less enjoyable or likeable.

   I used to love that song, but being assaulted when that song was playing ruined the song for me.

6. (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
7. To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
8. (obsolete) To fall into a state of decay.
   • 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalmes and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments:

     Though he his house of polisht marble build, / Yet shall it ruine like the Moth's fraile cell

9. (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.

   The young libertine was notorious for ruining local girls.

関連する語

• life-ruining
• ruination
• ruinable
• ruiner
• ruinous
• ruint

Further reading

• “ruin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ruin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ruin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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