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ruin I. substantiv

1. pieire, distrugere; înfrângere; pierdere (a speranţelor); ruină;

to bring to ruin a ruina, a distruge, a duce la ruină;

drink will be the ruin of him băutura îl va distruge.

2. plural ruine, dărâmături, năruituri;

in ruins în ruine.

ruin II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a ruina, a nărui, a dărâma; a dărăpăna.

2. a prăpădi (sănătatea, puterea, averea, cinstea etc.);

to ruin a girl a dezonora o fată;

their failure would ruin me falimentul lor mă va sărăci.

ruin II. verb B. intranzitiv

a decădea, a se prăbuşi, a se ruina.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It’s been the ruin of many a good fightin’-man before me.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Because,” said my aunt, “it's all I have. Because I'm ruined, my dear!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It was to save myself from ruin.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She had lived with him to be reproached as the ruin of all his happiness in Fanny, and carried away no better consolation in leaving him than that she had divided them.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I went back with him to the Admiral Benbow, and you cannot imagine a house in such a state of smash; the very clock had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself; and though nothing had actually been taken away except the captain's money-bag and a little silver from the till, I could see at once that we were ruined.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had informed him, that some of our crew left their country on account of being ruined by law; that I had already explained the meaning of the word; but he was at a loss how it should come to pass, that the law, which was intended for every man’s preservation, should be any man’s ruin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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