RUIN

Opening: Friday, July 12th 7:00 – 9:00pm

Artists Exhibiting in RUIN at The Royal Friday July 12th, 2019:
Paul Brainard | Ryan Frank | Sarah Fuhrman | Jude Griebel | Jen Hitchings | Caitlin McCormack | Seren Morey | Miller Opie | Taisiya Naumovich | Laini Nemett | Anna Ortiz | Hillary Raimo | Lauren Silberman | Keith Sirchio | Jeanne Tremel | Virginia Wagner

ru·in
/ˈro͞oin/

noun
noun: ruin
1. the physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.”a large white house falling into gentle ruin”
• the remains of a building, typically an old one, that has suffered much damage or disintegration.plural noun: ruins “the ruins of the castle”
• the disastrous disintegration of someone’s life.”the ruin and heartbreak wrought by alcohol, divorce, and violence”
• the cause of the disintegration of a person’s life or loss of their assets.”they don’t know how to say no, and that’s been their ruin”
• the complete loss of one’s money and other assets.”the financial cost could mean ruin”

verb
verb: ruin; 3rd person present: ruins; past tense: ruined; past participle: ruined; gerund or present participle: ruining

1. reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.”the castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers”

synonyms:
destroy, devastate, lay waste, leave in ruins, wreak havoc on, ravage, leave desolate; raze, demolish, blast, wreck, wipe out, flatten, level, crush; waste “a country that was ruined by decades of civil war”;
derelict, in ruins, gone to rack and ruin, dilapidated, ruinous, tumbledown, ramshackle, broken-down, decrepit, in disrepair, falling to pieces, falling apart, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating; neglected, uncared-for; shambly; shacky; munted; blasted “a fascinating medieval town with a ruined castle”

antonyms:
rebuild, repair, intact, well maintained; cause great and usually irreparable damage or harm to; have a disastrous effect on.”a noisy freeway has ruined village life”

synonyms:
wreck, destroy, devastate, wreak havoc on, reduce to nothing, damage, spoil, mar, injure, blast, blight, smash, shatter, dash, torpedo, scotch, make a mess of, mess up; sabotage, poison; louse up, screw up, foul up, put the kibosh on, banjax, do for, blow a hole in, nix, queer; scupper, cock up, dish, muller;
euchre, cruel; fuck up; bring to naught “a confrontation now would ruin all my plans”; destroyed, in ruins, in pieces, in ashes, falling down about one’s ears; over, finished, at an end; in tatters, in shreds, on the rocks, done for, toast “he finds his reputation as an art dealer ruined”

antonyms:
restore, save, flourishing
reduce to a state of poverty.”they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century”

synonyms:
bankrupt, make bankrupt, cause to go bankrupt, make insolvent, impoverish, reduce to penury/destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, wipe out, break, cripple; pauperize, beggar “the bank’s collapse was believed to have ruined nearly 2,000,000 people”

2. LITERARY
fall headlong or with a crash.”carriages go ruining over the brink from time to time”

Phrases
in ruins — in a state of complete disorder or disintegration.
“the economy was in ruins”

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘collapse of a building’): from Old French ruine, from Latin ruina, from ruere ‘to fall’.