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Ruined   /rˈuənd/  /rˈuɪnd/   Listen
Ruined

adjective
1.
Destroyed physically or morally.  Synonym: destroyed.
2.
Doomed to extinction.  Synonyms: done for, sunk, undone, washed-up.
3.
Brought to ruin.  Synonym: finished.  "The unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"


Ruin

verb
(past & past part. ruined;pres. part. ruining)
1.
Destroy completely; damage irreparably.  Synonym: destroy.  "The tears ruined her make-up"
2.
Destroy or cause to fail.
3.
Reduce to bankruptcy.  Synonyms: bankrupt, break, smash.  "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
4.
Reduce to ruins.
5.
Deprive of virginity.  Synonym: deflower.
6.
Fall into ruin.



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"Ruined" Quotes from Famous Books



... from which he had risen, in order to free himself from his son's clutches, "if I lost the money, I also made it. This was a flourishing concern before you were born. If the worst comes to the worst you are only where I started. But we are far from being absolutely ruined as yet." ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... your youthful sway, Ye deem secure your citadels of sky, Beyond the reach of sorrow or of fall! Have I not seen two dynasties of gods Already flung therefrom? and soon shall see A third, that now in tyranny exults, Shamed, ruined, in an hour! What sayest thou? Crouch I and tremble at these stripling powers? Small homage unto such from me, or none! Betake thee hence, sweat back along thy road— Look for no answer from me, ...
— Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays • AEschylus
... uprights remained of it; and fifty yards away he thought he could make out the crumpled shape of the roof. Nor was that all. Quite a quarter of the great oaks which were the glory of the place were down, or splintered and ruined. ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... men consists in saving themselves by the very means that have ruined them; Gavroche took in the whole situation at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... roofless, and indescribably swallowed up in the pitiless scrub. And then, near by, I descried another such ruin, and still another—all, as it were, sunk in the terrible gloom of the vegetation, as sometimes, at low tide, one can discern the walls of a ruined village at ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne


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