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ruined

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈruː.ɪnd//
  • United States//ˈɹuɪnd//
  • United States//ɹuːnd//

In a state of ruin; dilapidated.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ruinsimple past and past participle of ruin

adjective

  1. 1

    In a state of ruin; dilapidated.

    At the west end of the street is the ruined 13th-century hospice, known locally as Pilgrims' Rest.

  2. 2

    Bankrupt.

  3. 3

    slangincapacitated by drugs or alcohol

Forms

comparative
more ruined
superlative
most ruined
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).