Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined.
Синонимы
Examples for "downfall "
Examples for "downfall "
1 However, the architects of state capture have also crafted their own downfall .
2 The downfall of two peoples follows in the train of personal calamity.
3 The downfall of popery in these lands would then have been inevitable.
4 He'd started this chain of events that had led to Isabelle's downfall .
5 Like the Church, the municipalities survived the downfall of the Roman empire.
1 This vein of talk is a sure way of ruining an evening.
2 And we're tired of the great consumer circus ruining it for us.
3 Her parents accused her of ruining the house and carrying on disgracefully.
4 We just come here to talk and you're ruining my friend's skirt.
5 A. and he was in the way of ruining my young life.
1 It abides by the result of the referendum without wrecking our economy.
2 The malicious demon concealed in the ink bottle delights in wrecking love.
3 No less extraordinary is the pork-barrel tradition wrecking state and national budgets.
4 So is PMQs really wrecking Westminster's reputation and turning people off politics?
5 Kiera's wrecking teams hadn't got round to 'reclaiming' it from Rubra's control.
1 It would give me only the freedom to bring ruination to Africa.
2 Now they were faced with the wreckage and ruination of their efforts.
3 Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the limits of ruination .
4 The cost of upkeep has been the ruination of many a homeowner.
5 This matter between them had nothing to do with ruination or fortifications.
1 Others understand all this of an army of locusts laying waste the land.
2 Through Picardy he marched eastward burning and laying waste as before.
3 The Spaniards, Germans, and Lorrainers are in the suburbs laying waste the very gardens.
4 The monster was speedily approaching, laying waste all before it.
5 Then into Wessex went Eadmund, ravaging and laying waste there.
The process of becoming dilapidated.
Destroy completely; damage irreparably.
Другие значения термина "ruin" 1 Of course you ruin the whole effect wearin' runnin' shoes with it.
2 Only Seoul, he said, could help save the impoverished state from ruin .
3 The moment felt too good to ruin with words, so she didn't.
4 He's under constant threat of ruin through the loss of his animals.
5 Under the shadow of the crisis his character was going to ruin .
6 Sengkor-Wat-theold ruin at the back of Burmah; near the Chinese Border.
7 The course of ruin in California was fearfully rapid in those days.
8 But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
9 They bailed at just the right moment to ruin your plan, too.
10 In the mean time, the universal ruin around me redoubled my amazement.
11 In fact, the jagged mass of ruin was literally suspended in midair.
12 But this was not the whole ruin ; the fortress had a citadel.
13 Curse the stuff; it has wrought enough ruin with mine and me.
14 A near- ruin , pregnant with possibility, it was exactly the theatre he wanted.
15 Heavy casualties may ruin the Afghan government's chance of gaining more support.
16 A destiny towards ruin in fortune and in life has pursued me.
Другие примеры для термина "ruin"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Об этом термине Глагол
Изъявительное наклонение · Настоящее
Ruin в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки