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• We wanted to have a surprise birthday party, but by telling him, you’ve ruined the surprise.
  • Nous voulions faire une fête d’anniversaire surprise, mais en lui en parlant, tu as gâché la surprise.
• Now that the stock price went down, I’m ruined. How will I pay my debts?
  • Maintenant que le prix de l’action a baissé, je suis ruiné. Comment vais-je payer mes dettes ?
• Ruined health, ruined credit, ruined reputation, etc.
  • Santée ruinée, crédit ruiné, réputation ruinée, etc.
• This old building has become just a ruin.
  • Ce vieux bâtiment est devenu une simple ruine.
• the ruin of health or hopes
• My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.
• By the fireside there are old men seated, / Seeling ruined cities in the ashes.
• He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.
• In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us; for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted...
• Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
• The Veian and the Gabian towers shall fall, / And one promiscuous ruin cover all; / Nor, after length of years, a stone betray / The place where once the very ruins lay.
• the ruin of a constitution or a government;
• the ruin of a ship or an army;
• His ruin startled the other steeds.
• The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He[...]played a lone hand,. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
• The errors of young men are the ruin of business.
• Gambling has been the ruin of many.
• The monastery has fallen into ruin.
• A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
• The labour of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character.