ruined
Meaning of ruined
- To cause the fiscal ruin of.
With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us!
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.
- To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
The crooked stockbroker's fraudulent scheme ruined dozens of victims; some investors lost their life savings and even their houses.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
I used to love that song, but being assaulted when that song was playing ruined the song for me.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- To fall into a state of decay.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
The young libertine was notorious for ruining local girls.
adjective
Incapacitated by drugs or alcohol
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Hyphenation of ruined
ru-ined
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- ruined is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ruined synonyms
Meaning destroyed:
Meaning done for:
Meaning finished:
Meaning :
destroy, fordo, ruinate, wreck
ruined antonyms
Meaning :
build, construct, found, produce
Anagrams of ruined
diurne, indure, inured, unride, urined
Words that rhyme with ruined
abstained, addlebrained, airbrained, appertained, ascertained, attained, bargained, barmybrained, bechained, becurtained, beetlebrained, befountained, bestained, birdbrained, bloodstained, brained, captained, chained, chilblained, claybrained, cocaptained, cockswained, complained, constrained, contained, counterstained, coxswained, crackbrained, curtained, dained, darrained, destained, detained, detrained, disdained, disenchained, disentrained, disordained, distained, distrained, drained, drybrained, dullbrained, enchained, encurtained, engrained, entertained, entrained, explained, fained