ruined

[ru·in]

Something that's ruined is spoiled, wrecked, or destroyed. A ruined party can result from your obnoxious brother annoying all the friends you invited.

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Adjective S.
made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"

Adjective S.
brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"

Adjective S.
destroyed physically or morally

Adjective S.
doomed to extinction


imp. & p. p.
of Ruin


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Usage Examples

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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Other Usage Examples

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

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