ruinated

verb

Definition of ruinatednext
past tense of ruinate
as in destroyed

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  1. destroyed
  2. ruined
  3. flattened
  4. wrecked
  5. demolished
  6. devastated
  7. razed
  8. dismantled
Verb
  • The wineries surrounding this area did suffer some damage, but only one had a portion of its vineyards destroyed.
    Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Prior to Thursday, the analysts at the open-source intelligence collective Oryx had tallied one destroyed Nebo-M and two damaged ones.
    David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of destroyed
Verb
  • Rescue crews are hindered by cell service outages and ruined roads and bridges as federal officials warn money to help people get back on their feet is tenuous with 57 days still left in the official hurricane season.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Instead of basking at the park's desert ecosystem, visitors left graffiti and ruined trails.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of ruined
Verb
  • The radical potential of the scene has mostly evaporated, flattened and flayed into vague signifiers.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
  • According to agent Steven Gottlieb at Coldwell Banker Warburg in New York, the ubiquitousness of the internet has somewhat flattened the various seasonal patterns that used to be a guide.
    Terri Williams, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of flattened
Verb
  • Federal officials and experts are warning that the winds and floodwaters from Helene that wrecked the Southeast carry unscrupulous fraudsters amid the flotsam.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • When the smoke cleared, 16 MT-LBs and a tank lay wrecked.
    David Axe, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of wrecked
Verb
  • The distillery operated sporadically before being mothballed in 1998 and demolished in 2013.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Buildings on site tied to the Cadillac dealership have already been demolished as part of the redevelopment plans, including a parts service building and a collision, paint, and repair center.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of demolished
Verb
  • Chief Cares continues to raise funds for North Carolina and other states devastated by Hurricane Helene.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2024
  • They first became known in the 1990s as one half of the duo Kiki and Herb, a drag cabaret act that uplifted New York’s gay community as it was devastated by the AIDS epidemic.
    James Factora, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of devastated
Verb
  • Designers believed that form should follow function and razed the superfluous embellishments in favor of a minimalistic approach.
    Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2024
  • More than a thousand civilians are dead, more than a million have fled their homes, and entire city blocks have been razed.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of razed
Verb
  • Over the next thirty years, Nasrallah and his acolytes systemically dismantled and subsumed the sovereign Lebanese government, with even no President since 2022, and wrought havoc on the Lebanese people with little support from the population.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Most of Syria’s tank units and artillery batteries have disbanded, and much of the country’s massive arsenal of chemical weapons, which Damascus began stockpiling in the 1970s to deter Israel, has been dismantled under international supervision.
    Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
Definition of dismantled
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