Clues for the word "RUIN"
We've had 189 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 633 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 21, 2026.
Definition of ruin
- n. - The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
- 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.
- 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.
- n. - The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
- n. - That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
- 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.
- v. i. - To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
Referring Clues
- Destroy
- Bankrupt
- Completely bollix
- Archeological site
- Bankruptcy
- Make a mess of
- Undo
- Totally botch
- Archeologist's site
- Havoc
- Completely botch
- Botch
- Total
- Break, financially
- Demolish
- Rack's partner
- Archaeological site
- Totally trash
- Downfall
- Tear down
- Render useless
- Wreckage
- Pompeii, e.g., today
- Crush
- Pauperize
- Remains to be seen?
- Bring to naught
- Machu Picchu, for one
- Go to rack and ___
- Damage beyond repair
- Utter collapse
- Bring crashing down
- Devastation
- Utterly destroy
- Make a shambles of
- Lay waste to
- Trash totally
- Archaeology venue, at times
- Lay waste
- Archaeologist's site
- Shambles
- Undoing
- Mess up
- Bring down
- Torpedo
- Ravage
- Devastate
- Spoil
- Place of archaeological interest
- Wrack's partner
- Really mess up
- Wrecked condition
- Wreck
- Archaeology sight
- Render unusable
- Totally destroy
- Archaeologist's site
- Make unusable
- Mesa Verde attraction
- "Wrack" partner
- Wrack partner
- Nemesis' goal
- Totally wreck
- Destroy completely
- Partner of rack
- Damage irreparably
- Archaeological site, perhaps
- Wrack
- Lay to waste
- You can dig this place?
- Leave destitute
- Cliff dwelling (now)
- Totally mess up
- Impoverish
- Waist
- Archeologists site
- "Wrack" partner
- Destruction
- Archaeologists site
- Trash
- Bollix up
- The road to ___
- Pompeii, e.g.
- Completely destroy
- Break
- Completely wreck
- Take all the fun out of
- End of a certain road
- Subvert
- Mess up completely
- Many an archaeological site
- Perdition
- Wreck completely
- Archaeology find
- If you dig old things, dig this
- Leave broke
- What a dangerous "road" leads to?
- Completely screw up
- Uxmal sight
- The Parthenon or Machu Picchu
- Put the kibosh on
- Totally screw up
- Botch up
- Totally spoil
- Reduce to rubble
- The Colosseum, for one
- Archaeologist's find
- Historical excavation site
- Leave bankrupt
- Colosseum now
- Bane
- Cause to go bankrupt
- Total or destroy
- Archeologist's find
- Destroyed building that is an archeological site
- Turn into something bad
- Tumbledown building
- Despoil
- Destroyed Lamb of God jam?
- Botch the solo
- Destroy the opener, slang
- Ramones "Road to ___"
- "Everything is closed it's like a ___"
- Dilapidated building
- Bankrupt's lamenting having wasted £1,000
- Disaster
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- Demolish one in lead
- Being run out for a single means disaster
- Utter destruction
- Total disaster
- To run out of ideas, initially, can spoil things
- Defeat in game at home
- Catastrophe
- Utter destruction or downfall
- Bear losing head in wreckage
- One run scrambled in overthrow
- Game at home results in defeat
- Destroy financially
- Archaeologist's milieu
- Drive to bankruptcy, maybe
- Irreparably damage
- Almost regretting destruction
- I shall enter race and end up a wreck!
- Sport in state of collapse
- I run into disaster
- Mar, lay waste to
- I race about and cause destruction
- Spoil, impoverish
- Bear decapitation with fatal result
- Spoil just one in a series
- The havoc when I'm given the runaround
- In brewing, we hear, there's insolvency
- Excavation site
- Site with digging
- Permanently damage
- I career around, then collapse
- Fall to pieces
- Irreparable state
- Collapse
- Parthenon, e.g.
- Render irreparable
- It may hold broken pottery
- The Parthenon, e.g.
- Remains to be seen?
- Many a pyramid
- Machu Picchu or Chichén Itzá
- See 5
- When I get run out, it's simply the end
- Spoil, as a surprise
- Thoroughly spoil
- Decayed, crumpled building
- Total devastation
- Destroy totally
- Pompeii, for one
- Disaster due to a ruthless measure?
- Decayed building
- Pompeii or Machu Picchu
- Give the surprise ending away
- Give the ending away
- Wreak havoc on
- Bankrupt, say
- Flatten, say
- Tulum attraction
- Make toast?
- The Acropolis, now
- "Don't ___ this for me" ("Just let me live")
- Many a UNESCO site
- Complete disrepair
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 21, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 14, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 20, 2025
- Daily American - August 15, 2025
- Daily American - July 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 15, 2025
- New York Times - July 07, 2025
- Daily American - June 22, 2025
- LA Times - May 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 16, 2025
- New York Times - May 02, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- USA Today - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - February 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 22, 2025
- Daily American - February 12, 2025
- USA Today - February 07, 2025
- New York Times - February 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 28, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 27, 2024
- LA Times - December 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2024
- Daily American - December 06, 2024
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