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RUINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brought to ruin
Example:
the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically
Synonyms:
finished; ruined
Classified under:
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Destroyed physically or morally
Synonyms:
destroyed; ruined
Classified under:
Similar:
lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Doomed to extinction
Synonyms:
done for; ruined; sunk; undone; washed-up
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ruin
Context examples:
If all took place that might take place among the circle of her friends, Hartfield must be comparatively deserted; and she left to cheer her father with the spirits only of ruined happiness.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He could not do worse: he ruined his health and his estate amongst the worst men and the worst women.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Poor Edward! he is ruined for ever.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Neither the dissipations of the past—and she had lived very much in the world—nor the restrictions of the present, neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A drop of rain on her cheek recalled her thoughts from baffled hopes to ruined ribbons.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Henry Crawford, ruined by early independence and bad domestic example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little too long.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My father was always saying the inn would be ruined, for people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannized over and put down, and sent shivering to their beds; but I really believe his presence did us good.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
