RUINATED Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

ruinated

verb

past tense of ruinate

as in destroyed

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The Pakistani Information Ministry rejected a claim by Afghanistan's Defense Ministry that Afghanistan had destroyed a Pakistani post near the southern Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, opposite the Pakistani city of Chaman.

— MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
Saudi Arabia said earlier this month that its air defenses destroyed a Houthi drone headed for the holy city of Mecca, a claim the group denied.

— Azhar Sukri, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of destroyed

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Before the attack, millions of books a year were printed in this space, where there’s now nothing but piles of swollen book stock, ruined after firefighters put out the blaze.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
In a defense memo, Pattis characterizes Diamantis as a broken and financially ruined former politician and lawyer who at 70 might not survive a long prison sentence.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of ruined

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Since the early 2010s, spending per Medicare beneficiary had largely flattened.

— Aric Coffman, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver, a world of human complexity has been flattened deliberately to remove the inconvenient excesses of emotion and feeling.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of flattened

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The plant’s interior pot has drainage holes, hidden in the cachepot, so your plant won’t drown and your hardwoods won’t get wrecked.

— Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2026
This may then seem like yet another story about how Trump has wrecked norms and corrupted the rule of law.

— James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrecked

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With Centennial driving, Champlin Park's Eric Lukes pulled down a brilliant toe-tapping interception to kill a Cougars' drive.

— Ren Clayton, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026
The juvenile victim later alleged during a forensic interview that Tucker had pulled down his own pants at one point and sat on the victim with his bare buttocks touching the younger boy’s skin.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of pulled down

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The block that houses Monarch Donuts will soon be demolished as construction starts on a new retail and residential development called the Arcadia Town Center.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Part of the former Bob Jones Shoes building in the Crossroads could be demolished.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of demolished

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Sitting by the defense table in a wheelchair during Wednesday’s proceedings, Weinstein looked straight ahead as Haley, 49, told the court in tears that her self-esteem had been shattered by the attack and by having to relive it repeatedly.

— Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026
Zhu has lived in four tech houses, and her view of them as utopic spaces for entrepreneurs was shattered by her experience.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of shattered

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The region was also among those most severely affected by the February 2023 earthquakes that devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
The horrors for women and girls are prevalent everywhere, Theron said, but her native South Africa is particularly devastated by it.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026

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