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ruined |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ruin \Ru"in\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruined};p. pr & vb n. {Ruining}.] [Cf. F. ruiner, LL ruinare. See {Ruin}, n.] To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow. this mortal house I'll ruin. --Shak. By thee raised, I ruin all my foes. --Milton. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us --Franklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. --Longfellow. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ruined adj 1: destroyed physically or morally [syn: {destroyed}] 2: doomed to extinction [syn: {done for(p)}, {sunk}, {undone}, {washed-up}] 3: brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically" [syn: {finished}] 4: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {desolated}, {devastated}, {ravaged}, {wasted}]
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