Crossword-Solution: RUIN 4 letters, 416 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Ruin	n.	The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
Ruin	n.	Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
Ruin	n.	That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
Ruin	n.	The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
Ruin	n.	That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
Ruin	n.	To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
Ruin	v. i.	To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
RUIN	anagram	IRUN, NURI, RUNI, UNIR

We have 416 clues for the answer “RUIN”

Clue	Answers
"Don't ___ the moment!"	1 answer
"Don't ___ this for me" ("Just let me live")	1 answer
"Wrack" partner	1 answer
Ancient remains	1 answer
Archaeological site, perhaps	1 answer
Archaeologist's delight.	1 answer
Archaeology sight	1 answer
Archaeology venue, at times	1 answer
Archeologist's site	1 answer
Archeologist's treasure	1 answer
Archeologists dig it!	1 answer
Bankrupt state	1 answer
Bankrupt, say	1 answer
Bankruptcy, perhaps	1 answer
Be a blot on	1 answer
Botch the solo	1 answer
Bring crashing down	1 answer
Building decayed through age.	1 answer
Building that has seen better days.	1 answer
Cause (or effect!) of tourism?	1 answer
Cause of downfall.	1 answer
Cause to go bankrupt	1 answer
Certain point-of-interest in a travel guide	1 answer
Cliff dwelling (now)	1 answer
Colosseum now	1 answer
Completely bollix	1 answer
Completely screw up	1 answer
Crumbling castle.	1 answer
Crumbling structure.	1 answer
Decaying state	1 answer
Destroy financially	1 answer
Destroy the opener, slang	1 answer
Destroyed Lamb of God jam?	1 answer
Destroyed building	1 answer
Dig site	1 answer
Dig this place?	1 answer
Dilapidated house.	1 answer
Down fall	1 answer
Down, vulnerable, doubled and redoubled.	1 answer
Drive into bankruptcy	1 answer
End of a certain road	1 answer
Fate of Nineveh.	1 answer
Fate of aggressor nations.	1 answer
Flatten, say	1 answer
Give the ending away	1 answer
Go to rack and ___	1 answer
Gum up the works	1 answer
Harm irrevocably	1 answer
Historical excavation site	1 answer
If you dig old things, dig this	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

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Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Unscramble RUIN 4-letter words that start with R 4-letter words that end in N 4-letter words containing UI 4-letter words containing IN 4-letter words with R and U

Sentences with RUIN (5)

Which when _Beelzebub_ perceiv’d, then whom, _Satan_ except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem’d A Pillar of State; deep on his Front engraven Deliberation sat and publick care; And Princely counsel in his face yet shon, Majestick though in ruin: sage he stood With _Atlantean_ shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest Monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as Night Or Summers Noon-tide air, while thus he spake.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

There are women who spread ruin around them through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too full of life and love.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Boldwood loosened his hand, saying, “By Heaven, I’ve a mind to kill you!” “And ruin her.” “Save her.” “Oh, how can she be saved now, unless I marry her?” Boldwood groaned.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Till now the storied fortune of this house Was fortunate indeed; but from this day Woe, lamentation, ruin, death, disgrace, All ills that can be named, all, all are theirs.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Such occasions might remind the elderly citizen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship-owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to swell, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with RUIN (3)

Maybe... you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

J.R. Ward Lover Unbound

Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vib…

Alaric Hutchinson Living Peace

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 670 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).