/ Thesaurus / R Synonyms of ruined Find synonyms for: Verb1. destroy, ruinusage: destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"2. ruin, thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkusage: destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"3. bankrupt, ruin, break, smash, impoverishusage: reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"4. ruin, lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourgeusage: reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"5. deflower, ruin, copulate, mate, pair, coupleusage: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"6. ruin, decay, crumble, dilapidateusage: fall into ruinAdjective1. destroyed, ruined, lost (vs. saved)usage: destroyed physically or morally2. done for(predicate), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up, unsuccessful (vs. successful)usage: doomed to extinction3. finished, ruined, destroyed (vs. preserved)usage: brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: panacea Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language