ruin

verb

1. To damage irreparably
2. Bankrupt, impoverish

   "ruined by stock speculation"

3. To subject to frustration, failure, or disaster

   "will ruin your chances of promotion"

4. To reduce to ruins devastate
5. To become ruined

noun

1. The state of being ruined
2. The remains of something destroyed
3. A ruined building, person, or object
4. The action of destroying, laying waste, or wrecking
5. Damage, injury
6. Physical, moral, economic, or social collapse
7. A falling down collapse

   "from age to age … the crash of ruin fitfully resounds"

8. A cause of destruction

idiom

1. To become destroyed or ruined

   "The old house has gone to rack and ruin."