in ruins meaning

• [American slang]
  in a state of destruction. (Typically: be ~; lay ~; leave something ~.)
    The enemy army left the cities they attacked in ruins.
    The crops laid in ruins after the f lood.

• An earthquake left the whole town in ruins.
• The city is now in ruins.
• I cannot conceive of such a thing as genoa in ruins.
• A city is laid in ruins.
• They saw by the light of the moon that part of the city lay in ruins.
• She sat, cool and unmoved, with her lifework falling in ruins about her.
• When young henry came out of the navy to join his grandfather's company, it was in ruins.
• Was some damn newspaper, concerned only with printing a sensational one-day story, about to lay in ruins all his work and dreams?
• The whole city lay in ruins after the earthquake
• Presumption begins in ignorance and ends in ruin

• "in ruins" meaning in Chinese: 变成废墟
• "in ruins" meaning in Japanese: 廃墟｛はいきょ｝となって、がれきの山となって、完全｛かんぜん｝に駄目｛だめ｝になって、めちゃめちゃになってThe w...
• "in ruins" meaning in Arabic: مستهدم
• "in ruins" meaning in French: détruit, en ruine