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ruinedadjective facing certain defeat, disaster, or deathyour chances for a promotion were ruined the instance you started mouthing off to the boss dead, done, done for, doomed, finished, kaput(also kaputt), sunk endangered, imperiled(or imperilled) ruinedverbpast tense of ruinto cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsafter he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again bankrupted, broke, busted(also bust) beggared, impoverished, pauperizedreduced, straitenedcleaned (out), wiped out enriched, richened to bring destruction to (something) through violent actiontornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county destroyed, devastated, ravaged, scourged despoiled, forayed, harried, looted, marauded, pillaged, plundered, sacked, stripped(also stript)annihilated, desolated, eradicated, expunged, extinguished, extirpated, nuked, obliterated, rubbed out, shattered, smashed, totaled(or totalled), vaporized, wasted, wiped out, wracked, wreckeddecimated, moweddemolished, razedcrushed, overpowered, overran, overthrew, overwhelmed reconditioned, recovered, redeemed, rehabilitated, restoredfixed, mended, patched, repaired, revamped to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofa huge fire that ruined an entire city block annihilated, creamed, decimated, demolished, desolated, destroyed, devastated, did in, extinguished, nuked, pulled down, pulverized, razed, rubbed out, shattered, smashed, tore down, totaled(or totalled), vaporized, wasted, wracked, wrecked beat, bested, clobbered, conquered, crushed, defeated, drubbed, licked, mastered, overbore, overcame, overmatched, prevailed (over), routed, scotched, skunked, subdued, surmounted, thrashed, trimmed, triumphed (over), trounced, walloped, whipped, won (against)blasted, blew up, broke, crippled, damaged, defaced, deteriorated, disfigured, disintegrated, dissolved, dynamited, harmed, impaired, injured, mangled, marred, mutilated, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt), vitiatederoded, scoured, swept (away), washed out, wore (away)dilapidated, disassembled, dismantled, gutted, took down, unbuilt, undid, unmadeblotted out, effaced, eradicated, expunged, exterminated, extirpated, liquidated, obliterated, removed, rooted (out), snuffed (out), stamped (out), wiped outdespoiled, havocked, looted, pillaged, plundered, ravaged, sacked, trampled, trashed, vandalizedassassinated, butchered, cut down, dispatched, executed, felled, killed, killed off, massacred, mowed (down), murdered, slaughtered, slew, took out, zapped built, constructed, erected, put up, raised, reared, set up doctored, fixed, mended, patched, reconditioned, repaired, revampedcreated, inventedassembled, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, framed, made, manufactured, molded, produced, shapedbrought about, constituted, established, fathered, founded, instituted, organizedconserved, preserved, protected, savedrebuilt, reconstructed, remodeled, renovated, restored |