RUINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruined mean? 

• RUINED (adjective)
  The adjective RUINED has 3 senses:

1. destroyed physically or morally

2. doomed to extinction

3. brought to ruin

  Familiarity information: RUINED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroyed physically or morally

Synonyms:

destroyed; ruined

Similar:

lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Doomed to extinction

Synonyms:

done for; ruined; sunk; undone; washed-up

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Brought to ruin

Synonyms:

finished; ruined

Context example:

the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

“She is dead, perhaps,” said Miss Dartle, with a smile, as if she could have spurned the body of the ruined girl.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You have saved an innocent man’s life, and you have prevented a very grave scandal, which would have ruined my reputation in the Force.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A day’s work ruined, Watson,” said he, striding across to the window.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The indications are ruined by three days’ delay.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, cospetto! we are ruined and destroyed!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is generous to those who have no claim upon him, but he has ruined his tradesmen by refusing to pay his just debts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Don't speak so loud, or you will be overheard—and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great Wizard."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Nor did he mind, in the course of learning to ride the wheel home, the fact that he ruined his suit of clothes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was unfortunately lost with so much else in the same boat accident which ruined my photographs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I answered that it had ceased to be a private matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was national property.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)