Ruins

Definition

ruin /'ru:Çn/ v ၁။ ပ်က္စီးေစသည္။ ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ ၿပိဳပ်က္ေစ သည္။ The crops were ruined by the late frost. ❍ The island has been ruined by tourism. ❍ It poured with rain and my shoes got/were ruined. ❍ The mistake ruined his chances of ever becoming President. ၂။ ဆံုး႐ံႈးေစသည္။ ခြၽတ္ ၿခံဳက်ေစသည္။ If she loses the court case it will ruin her. ❍ a ruined man. n ၁။ [U] ပ်က္စီးျခင္း။ a city reduced to a state of ruin by war ❍ The house has fallen into ruin through years of neglect. ၂။ [U] (က) ျပဳတ္ျပဳတ္ျပဳန္းျခင္း။ အတိဒုကၡေရာက္ျခင္း။ ပ်က္ကိန္းဆိုက္ျခင္း။ face financial ruin ❍ The government's failure to act on this matter led ultimately to its ruin. (ခ) ပ်က္စီးရာပ်က္စီးေၾကာင္း။ ပ်က္ကိန္း။ Gambling was his ruin. ၃။ [C often pl ] အၿပိဳအပ်က္။ the ruins of the castle ❍ the ancient ruins of Pompeii ❍ The abbey is now a ruin. ❏ in ruins [ IDM ] ၿပိဳပ်က္လ်က္။ ျဖဴခါျပာခါက်လ်က္။ ပ်က္စီးတိမ္းပါးလ်က္။ An earthquake left the whole town in ruins. ❍ His career/reputation is/lies in ruins. ❍ Their economic policy is in ruins. ❏ ruination /ru:Ç'neÇʃn/ n [U] ပ်က္စီးယိုယြင္းျခင္း။ the ruination of the countryside. ❏ ruined adj ၿပိဳလဲပ်က္စီးလ်က္ရိွေသာ။ a ruined church/city. ❏ ruinous /'ru:Çnǝs/ adj ၁။ မဆံ့အင္တန္ႀကီးမားေသာ။ ruinous expenditure. ၂။ ဆိုး(က်ဳိး)။ the ruinous effects of the strike. ၃။ ( fml ) ၿပိဳပ်က္လ်က္ရိွေသာ။ ruinous castles. ❏ ruinously adv မြဲေဆးေဖာ္ရာက်ေလာက္ေအာင္ပင္။ a ruinously expensive court case.

Examples

1. You’ll completely ruin the flowers if you touch them.
2. Any kind of dishonest dealing will ruin his career.
3. She had ruined her mother’s chances of getting a job.
4. They didn’t want to be accused of ruining everyone’s fun.
5. It was a scandal that totally ruined the company.