Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 13 compound words that contain ruin. The most common are listed below. Open ruin in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- blue ruinLow-end gin, usually home-made.
- rack and ruinComplete destruction.
- ruin of the yearThe dying back of deciduous plants in late autumn.
- ruin pubA bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
- modern ruinsingular of modern ruins.
- ruin theoryThe use of mathematical models to describe an insurer's vulnerability to insolvency.
- ruin valueThe concept of designing a building such that it will leave behind aesthetically pleasing and long-lasting ruins.
- gambler's ruinThe fact that a gambler playing a game with negative expected value will eventually go broke, regardless of the betting system used.
- mother's ruinGin (the drink).
- wrack and ruinComplete destruction.
- ruin pubsplural of ruin pub: A bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
- un-ruinAlternative form of unruin: To fix or restore something that was previously ruined; to bring back to a whole or functioning state.
- ruin-restoration creationismSynonym of gap creationism: A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the …
Compound words 13
- ruinismAn ideology that leads to the destruction of society.
- ruiniformHaving the appearance of the ruins of buildings, despite being natural in origin.
- unruinTo fix or restore something that was previously ruined; to bring back to a whole or functioning state.
- ruinableCapable of being ruined.
- ruinlessWithout ruins.
- ruinlikeResembling or characteristic of a ruin.
- ruinestsecond-person singular simple present indicative of ruin
- ruineththird-person singular simple present indicative of ruin: The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- ruinousCausing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
- ruinateTo reduce to ruins; to destroy.