Ruins vs Destroy - What's the difference?
ruins | destroy |
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
As verbs the difference between ruins and destroy
is that ruins is third-person singular of ruin while destroy is To damage beyond use or repair.
As a noun ruins
is plural of lang=en.destroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.