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ruin
English
Etymology
From Middle English ruyne, ruine, from Old French ruine, from Latin ru?na (“overthrow, ruin”), from ru? (“I fall down, tumble, sink in ruin, rush”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??u?.?n/
- Rhymes: -u??n
Noun
ruin (countable and uncountable, plural ruins)
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- 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.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- The errors of young men are the ruin of business.
- 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.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, The Bard
- Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
- 1768, Thomas Gray, The Bard
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
Translations
Verb
ruin (third-person singular simple present ruins, present participle ruining, simple past and past participle ruined or (dialectal, nonstandard) ruint)
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of.
- With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us!
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- 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...
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.
- 1857, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Mile-Stone
- By the fireside there are old men seated, / Seeing ruined cities in the ashes.
- To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- The crooked stockbroker's fraudulent scheme ruined dozens of victims; some investors lost their life savings and even their houses.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.
- 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.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (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
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalmes and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- The young libertine was notorious for ruining local girls.
Synonyms
- destroy
- fordo
- ruinate
- wreck
- See also Thesaurus:spoil
Antonyms
- build
- construct
- found
- produce
Related terms
- ruination
- ruinable
- ruiner
- ruinous
- ruint
Translations
Further reading
- ruin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ruin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- ruin at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Irun
Asturian
Adjective
ruin m sg (feminine singular ruina, neuter singular ruino, masculine plural ruinos, feminine plural ruines)
- weedy
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ruun. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rœy?n/
- Hyphenation: ruin
- Rhymes: -œy?n
Noun
ruin m (plural ruinen, diminutive ruintje n)
- gelding
See also
- hengst
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin ruina
Noun
ruin m (definite singular ruinen, indefinite plural ruiner, definite plural ruinene)
- ruin (often in plural form when referring to buildings)
References
- “ruin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin ruina
Noun
ruin m (definite singular ruinen, indefinite plural ruinar, definite plural ruinane)
- ruin (often in plural form when referring to buildings)
References
- “ruin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
From an earlier *ruino, from ruina, or from a Vulgar Latin root *ru?nus, ultimately from Latin ru?na. Compare Portuguese ruim, Catalan roí.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rwin/, [?rw?n]
Adjective
ruin (plural ruines)
- contemptible, mean, heartless
- Synonyms: vil, despreciable
- mean, stingy
- Synonyms: avaro, mezquino, tacaño, usurero, agarrado, cicatero
- wild; unruly
- Synonyms: salvaje, agresto
- rachitic
- Synonym: raquítico
Swedish
Noun
ruin c
- a ruin (remains of a building)
- ruin (financial bankruptcy)
Declension
Related terms
- ruinera
Anagrams
- urin
Tetum
Noun
ruin
- bone
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goon
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). Goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921).
- The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
- The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
- The "guard" sense was influenced by both senses 1 and 2, though not by the Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.
Noun
goon (plural goons)
- A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
- A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
- (ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.
- (Britain, WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
- (Internet slang) A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.
Derived terms
- goony
- goon baiting
- goon squad
Translations
See also
- goonie
- gooney
- gooney bird
Etymology 2
Perhaps diminutive slang for flagon or from Aboriginal English goom.
Noun
goon (uncountable)
- (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
- 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,
- We drank goons of cheap wine.
- 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,
- (Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
- 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,
- ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek. […] ’
- 2010, Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World, page 384,
- With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It?s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it?s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we?ve consumed this trip.
- 2011, E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like, unnumbered page,
- Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon, mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.
- 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,
Synonyms
- box wine
- cask wine
Anagrams
- gono-, no go, no-go, nogo, noog, ongo
Esperanto
Noun
goon
- accusative singular of goo
Japanese
Romanization
goon
- R?maji transcription of ???
Middle English
Verb
goon
- Alternative form of gon (“to go”)
Ojibwe
Noun
goon anim (obviative goonan, diminutive goonens, locative gooning, distributive locative goonikaang)
- snow
- Gii-gichi-onzaamiino goon gii-biboonagak.
- There was a lot of snow this winter.
- Gii-gichi-onzaamiino goon gii-biboonagak.
Derived terms
- goonikaa
Related terms
- -aagon-
See also
- zoogipon
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/goon-na
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