Associations to the word «Ruined»

Wiktionary

RUINED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of ruin
RUINED, adjective. (slang) incapacitated by drugs or alcohol

Dictionary definition

RUINED, adjective. Destroyed physically or morally.
RUINED, adjective. Doomed to extinction.
RUINED, adjective. Brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats