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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



... second, then rose up irregularly in a bound, to thud into the ditch, where it lay still. I saw cannon coming up at a gallop, with many horses, on the bare right flank of the battle. Another ball came just over my head, with a scream which made my heart quite sick. I sat down cowering under a ruined thorn-tree by the road, crying like a little child. It must have been a moment after that when I saw a man staggering down the road towards me, holding his side with both hands. He fell into the road, dead, not far from me. Then others came past, some so fearfully hurt that it was ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... 'I was living near Kenmare, and many's the day I saw them burying the corpses in the ditch by the road. It was after that I went to England, for this country was ruined and destroyed. I heard there was work at that time in Plymouth; so I went to Dublin and took a boat that was going to England; but it was at a place called Liverpool they put me on shore, and then I had to walk ...
— In Wicklow and West Kerry • John M. Synge
... crept along them undisturbed—grass grew up to the very threshold, at which hung a buffalo's horn, suspended by a brass chain. A massive door of black oak closed a gate, which much resembled the ancient entrance to a ruined sepulchre, and not a soul appeared to acknowledge or ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott
... that overthrow all our rights, I should look upon it as a misfortune for me to be either accessary or witness to such a compliance. I will not only repeat what the merchants told your Lordships—that their trade is ruined—I will go further; I will say the nobility is ruined, the whole nation is undone. For I can call this treaty nothing else but a mortgage of {166} your honor, a surrender of your liberties." Such language may now seem too overwrought and extravagant to have much effect ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy
... had crossed the ferry-bridge there was a little more shelter, but he did not relinquish his hold till she requested him. They passed the ruined castle, and having left the island far behind them trod mile after mile till they drew near to the outskirts of the neighbouring watering-place. Into it they plodded without pause, crossing the harbour bridge about ...
— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy


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