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The word to ruin is a term frequently used in our language and that we use when we want define some situation or scenario of destruction, damage, or ruin that something or someone suffers and that causes those affected by it serious problems in the satisfactory development of their lives.

Damage or destruction of something, or someone

It should be noted that the aforementioned damage that causes such a thing or issue to be ruined can affect something material or immaterial.

A natural catastrophe or a financial disaster, factors that trigger the ruin

Thus, an earthquake that hits a city can completely ruin the edification of a house, meanwhile, an acute economic crisis will be able to impoverish the most economically unprotected sectors of society.

And precisely in the economic sphere, the word is frequently used when one wants to refer to the dire economic state of someone, a country or the finance of a company. “The economy of our country was ruined by a administration corrupt and ineffective.”

It is also common that when a person goes into bankruptcy and cannot afford the payments that he has committed to in his daily life, he usually says that he is in ruins, and the same expression it is used when it is meant to refer that a building that suffered an attack or a natural accident was totally destroyed.

People often go into ruin or bankruptcy when our income because they fired us from work or because the company where we worked closed, because we could not pay the debts, or due to mismanagement of our personal finances, that is, we spend more than we enters.

The worst and main consequence of this state of affairs is that we will not be able to satisfy our basic needs and we will need someone's help until we can face them, either through a loan or by finding a job.

Depending on the type of damage suffered, the context and the conditions, it is possible that someone who has been affected by an accident that caused him the total ruin of some of your belongings can claim through the courts, to whom it corresponds, an economic compensation for such done.

For example, if a fire completely destroys an insured home, its owners may be compensated with a equivalent sum of money, depending on the type of insurance, to rebuild it, or failing that, to acquire another property.

When an object, piece of furniture or a building suffer some partial damage, their original structure and aesthetics can be restored from a procedure known as restoration and that consists of returning to its original state what by x reason was damaged.

Restoration: to restore the original and beautiful state of a piece

There are professionals who are dedicated precisely to practicing restoration on various objects and also on buildings.

Obviously, furniture and objects require a smaller deployment and can be made in a workshop at the same time. which one takes the piece to be restored and, for example, is repainted, polished or a piece is returned missing.

While in the case of buildings the procedure is more complex since it requires the hiring personnel and the use of many more materials.

A situation went bad

And on the other hand, the word ruin we usually use it with recurrence in the language colloquial when we want to express that a situation, a relationship, an event, among others were complicated or damaged, for example, in the framework of a relationship, lying to someone close, will surely be a cause for that union to end up being destroyed, going broke.

And in an event that we lack the musical number will also cause it to be ruined.

On the other hand, the concept of ruining is closely related to many others that can be used as synonyms and vice versa, among them: damage, destroy, spoil ..., among others.

Meanwhile, the concepts that directly oppose the ruin reference are build and get rich.

The first involves building an architectural or engineering work and the second getting rich.

Themes in Ruin