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Adjective: ruined  roo-ind
  1. Destroyed physically or morally
    - destroyed
     
  2. Doomed to extinction
    - done for, sunk, undone, washed-up
     
  3. Brought to ruin
    "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"
    - finished
Verb: ruin  roo-in or roo-un
  1. Damage beyond use or repair
    "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
    - destroy, spifflicate, spiflicate
     
  2. Destroy or cause to fail
    "This behaviour will ruin your chances of winning the election"
     
  3. Reduce to bankruptcy
    "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to ruin me!"
    - bankrupt, break, smash
     
  4. Reduce to ruins
    "The country lay ruined after the war"
     
  5. Deprive of virginity
    "This dirty old man ruined several young girls in the village"
    - deflower
     
  6. Fall into ruin

See also: destroyed, lost, ruination, ruiner, unsuccessful

Type of: baffle, bilk, copulate, couple, cross, crumble, decay, desolate, devastate, dilapidate, foil, frustrate, impoverish, lay waste, lay waste to, mate, pair, queer, ravage, scotch, scourge, spoil, thwart, waste

Encyclopedia: Ruin

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