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Ruins vs Basement - What's the difference?

ruins | basement |

As nouns the difference between ruins and basement

is that ruins is while basement is a floor of a building below ground level.

As a verb ruins

is (ruin).

ruins

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (ruin)
    • ----

    basement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A floor of a building below ground level.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Last place in a sports conference standings.

    • Derived terms

    * bargain basement * basement battler * basementless * basementlike * basement membrane * subbasement