ruin-Ruine: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is Ruine?

  • Total destruction or disintegration, either physical, moral, social, or economic.
  • A cause of total destruction.

    Eine Ursache für totale Zerstörung.

  • The act of destroying totally.

    Der Akt der totalen Zerstörung.

  • A destroyed person, object, or building.

    Eine zerstörte Person, ein zerstörtes Objekt oder Gebäude.

  • The remains of something destroyed, disintegrated, or decayed. Often used in the plural: studied the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • To destroy completely; demolish.
  • To harm irreparably.
  • To reduce to poverty or bankruptcy.
  • To deprive of chastity.

    Der Keuschheit berauben.

  • To fall into ruin.

    Ins Verderben zu stürzen.

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