Ruined

Definition: Ruined

Ruined

Adjective

1. Destroyed physically or morally.

2. Doomed to extinction.

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

4. Made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ruined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Ruined

Failure

Lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt; (not paying); played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head; destroyed.

Hopelessness

Incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable.

Crosswords: Ruined

You've ruined that piano (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.)

They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.)

You ruined my life (Moonstruck; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley. Starring Cher as Loretta Castorini and Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri.)

Religious?! With ruined churches, no ministers, no priestsand children dancing naked (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

And ruined your black tie affair ("Friends in Low Places"; performing artist: Garth Brooks)

It's a shame you ruined your gown in the rain (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

The medical association's board of ethics stripped him of all his creditials, and his reputation was ruined. (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

You're trailer trash when your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan. (references; author: unknown)

Isn't it funny how the mood can be ruined so quickly by just one busted condom. (references; author: unknown)

Ruined (1968)

They Ruined the Neighborhood (1990)

You Ruined My Life (1987)

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Books

• College ruined our daughter; letters to parents concerning the baffling world of the college student (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Confederacy of Ruined Lives (reference)

• Ruined (reference)

• You Ruined Everything (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, circa 1865, while serving as flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Note the ruined buildings in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Church service on the ship's ruined hangar deck, taken upon her return to the U.S. from the Pacific for repair of battle damage received off Japan on 19 March 1945. Location is probably in, or near, New York Harbor, circa 28 April 1945. Credit: NAVY.

Do you think it's fun to have ruined the best man in the country?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spanish Civil War: 1,000,000 dead, $20,000,000,000 lost, 32 months of terror, ruined cities, wrecked homes, bombed factories, lost treasures, farms injured / Willard Combes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Italian front - A.R.C. ambulance in a ruined town. Credit: Library of Congress.

The ruined church of San Paulo, Macao, China. Credit: Library of Congress.

Norfolk, Va. Ruined buildings at Navy Yard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charleston, S.C. Graveyard of the ruined Circular Church. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ruined dwelling, town in distance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barn and farm equipment ruined by flood waters. Hatfield, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Petty-Bourgeois Socialism The feudal aristocracy was not the only class that has ruined by the bourgeoisie, not the only class whose conditions of existence pined and perished in the atmosphere of modern bourgeois society. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There was a Pig, that sat alone, Beside a ruined Pump

But there is still the ruined wall, and, near it, the stealthy tread of the foe that would win over again his unforgotten triumph

This was what ruined his case

Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust

He only desired me to observe a ruined building upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account

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Economic History

Albania

Albania was among the last states to overcome communism; decades of Stalinism, central planning, and isolationism ruined the economy. (references)

Micronesia

Visitor attractions include scubadiving (notably in Chuuk Lagoon), World War II battle sites, and the ancient ruined city of Nan Madol on Pohnpei. (references)

Estonia

In the previous decades, centralized Czarist rule had contributed a rather large industrial sector dominated by the world's largest cotton mill, a ruined post-war economy, and an inflated ruble currency. (references)

Political Economy

Korea

Since 1995, nearly annual droughts and floods have destroyed crops and ruined agricultural land, and hunger and malnutrition have been widespread. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ruined": be ruined ♦ become ruined ♦ being ruined ♦ blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted ♦ ruined city ♦ ruined house ♦ ruined wall ♦ ruined wiped outpredicate impoverished. Additional references.

Ending with "ruined": half-ruined.

Albanian

themeldalë (helpless, single). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفلس (bankrupt, broke, bust, busty, down at heel, hard up, impecunious, insolvent, kaput, penniless, punk, unowned), ‏محطم (broken, crusher, demolished, destroyed, in pieces), ‏متهدم (dilapidated, fallen, razed, ruinous, tumbledown), ‏مخرب (devastating, stricken, subversive, tumbledown, vandal, wasting), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

порутен (dilapidated, ramshackle, run down, tumble down), погубен (killed, sunk, undone). (various references)

Chinese 

败坏 (ruining), 破敗 (beaten), 敝 (defeated, my, poor, shabby, worn out). (various references)

Czech

rozpadlý, zruinovaný, znièený (clapped out, kaput, tattered, uncreated), zkažený (bad, corrupt, debauched, decayed, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, spoilt, stale, wicked). (various references)

Finnish

tuhoutua (be destroyed, be ruined, be wrecked, perish), tärveltyä (be ruined, be spoiled), se mursi hänen terveytensä (it ruined his health), pilaantua (be ruined), mennä pilalle (be ruined), joutua perikatoon (be ruined), joutua häviöön (be ruined). (various references)

French

ruinés, ruinées, ruinée, ruiné, ruinâmes, ruinèrent, foutu, en ruine, abîmé. (various references)

German

ruiniert (bankrupted, dilapidates, marred, scuttles), zerstörte (demolished, destructed, vandalized, wrecked), zerfallen (become enslaved, crumble, crumbling, decay, decline, decompose, disintegrate, fall, fall apart, fall into ruin, molder, moldered, moulder, mouldered, to disintegrate, to molder, tumble down), verkracht (dead beat, falls out with), verkorkst (kinky, screwed up, upset), verfallen (addicted, be forfeited, become addicted, become dilapidated, become enslaved, become invalid, decay, decline, deteriorate, die, dilapidated, emaciated, expire, expired, fall, fall into disrepair, fall off, invalid, lapse, lapsed, ruinous, senile, to decay, to expire, tumble down, waste), verdorben (addled, bad, corrupt, corrupted, corruptly, debauched, depraved, foul, off, perished, polluted, putrid, putridly, rotten, spoiled, tainted, upset), kaputt (broken, broken down, bust, crook, done in, haywire, kaput, knackered, shattered, whacked), erledigt (done, done in, exhausted, finished, fit, shattered, vacant, washed out), abgewirtschaftet. (various references)

Greek 

ξεπεσμένοσ (impoverished, seedy looking), ερειπωμένος (in ruins). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוחרב (destroyed), חרב (arid, cold steel, desolate, destroyed, knife, parched, steel, sword, waste), הרוס (destroyed, fallen). (various references)

Hungarian

romos (ruinous). (various references)

Indonesian

tumpur (broke, destroyed, peniless). (various references)

Italian

logoro (effete, exhausted, jaded, outworn, ragged, shabby, threadbare, well worn, worn, worn out), distrussi (wrecked). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

形無し (loss of face, spoiled). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたなし (loss of face, spoiled). (various references)

Korean 

파괴하는 (Destroyed). (various references)

Manx

millit (blown, corrupted, defaced, spoil, spoiled, undone), fo haart (defeated, overthrown), currit naardey, currit mow (destroyed), creujit (crushed), creuit, craiuaigagh, brisht (bankrupt, breached, broke, bust, cracked, deposed, deprived, discontinuous, fragmentary, insolvent, ruptured, shipwrecked, smashed, stony-broke, wrecked). (various references)

Pig Latin

uinedray.(various references)

Romanian

ruinat (broke, broken down, dilapidated, done for, ruinous, undone), dãrãpãnat (dilapidated, ramshackle, rundown, shattered, tumble down). (various references)

Russian 

разрушать разрушенный (crashed, demolished, eroded). (various references)

Spanish

ruinoso (dilapidated, ramshackle, ruinous), ruinado; bancarrotado, fastidiado (annoyed, importuned, irked), estropeado (blown, broken, broken down, crumpled, damaged, haywire, shop-soiled, shopworn, spoiled, spoilt, torn), en ruinas (bedraggled), arruinado (bankrupt, broken, bust, desolate, dilapidated, dilapidates, scuttles). (various references)

Swedish

förfallen (decadent, decayed, derelict, dilapidated, invalid, lapsed, mature, overdue, tumbledown). (various references)

Turkish

yıkılmış (broken, broken down, decadent, down, down and out), mahvolmuş (all up, banged up, bankrupt, damaged, gone, kaput, lost, perished, undone, up the spout, washed up, wrecked), harap (creaky, desolate, devastated, dilapidated, ramshackle, ratty, ruinous, waste, wrack and ruin), bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, spoilt, unmade, upset, withered, wrecked), berbat olmuş (spoiled, spoilt), batmış (bankrupt, demersal, immersed, insolvent, sinked, steeped in), batık (ingrown, Lagan, submerged, submersed, sunken). (various references)

Turkmen 

weяranзylykly (demolished). (various references)

Ukrainian

розорений (broke, broken, gone), зруйнований (blasted, broken down, desolate, frustrated, raddled), занапащений (undone). (various references)

afflictus, perdita, perditam, perditi, perditis, perditorum, perditum, perditus, ruinosa, ruinosis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Ruined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raineth, reiney, rewinde, roaned, Roine, roinye, roneoed, Rouanet, roynet, Ruanne, Rubine, Rubinfeld, Rudinger, Rudini, ruien, ruiened, ruinam, ruinas, ruine, ruines, rulind, runed, runned, ruone, Rupinder, urined. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: inured.

-1 letter: diner, indue, inure, nuder, nudie, under, urine.

-2 letters: deni, dine, dire, dune, dure, durn, ired, nerd, nide, nude, nurd, rein, rend, ride, rind, rude, rued, ruin, rune, unde.

-3 letters: den, die, din, due, dui, dun, end, ern, ire, red, rei, rid, rin, rue, run, urd, urn.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, id, in, ne.

+1 letter: dourine, dungier, inducer, injured, insured, intrude, inurned, neuroid, turdine, unaired, undried, unfired, unhired, unrimed, untired, untried, uranide, uridine.

+2 letters: decurion, denarius, dourines, enduring, enquired, gueridon, incurred, incurved, inducers, indulger, indurate, inpoured, inquired, insureds, intruded, intruder, intrudes, inturned, muraenid, reducing, reinduce, reinduct, retinued, reunited, rudiment, ruinated, sourdine, sundries, unbridle, unburied, underbid, underdid, underlie, underlip, underlit, underpin, ungirded, unhaired, unironed, unkinder, unmitred, unpaired, unpriced, unprimed, unprized, unraised, unrepaid, unriddle, unrifled, unrigged, unrinsed, unripped, untidier, unvaried, unwinder, uranides, uredines, uredinia, uridines, urinated.