Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ruined"
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) 1.7 (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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