ruined

ruined
adj
1. dilapidated, decrepit, in ruins, derelict, gone to wrack and ruin, the worse for wear, weather-beaten, weather-scarred, blasted; blighted, rotting, deteriorated, crumbling, falling down, going to pieces, Inf. tottering, nodding to its fall; time-worn, time-scarred, moth-eaten, moss-covered, moldering, gone to pot, Inf. gone to the dogs, gone to seed, worsened, on the downgrade, on the decline; Inf. down the drain, Inf. shot, Sl. kaput, Sl. cooked, Sl. sunk; spoiled, marred, decayed, rotten, damaged, wrecked, ravaged, despoiled, eroded, wasted; mangled, rent, torn, mutilated, vandalized; shattered, smashed, in bits or pieces; burned, scorched; All Inf. botched, screwed up, fouled up, loused up, snafued, bollixed up, messed up, hashed up.
2. destroyed, devastated, desolated; smashed, crushed, broken, overcome, overthrown, overwhelmed, vanquished, fallen, Sl. done in; defeated, undone, Inf. done for, finished; worsted, bested, outdone, beaten, put to rout, routed, scattered, Inf. licked, Inf. whipped, Inf. trimmed, Inf. trounced.
3. wasted, withered, shriveled, wilted, wizened, dried-up.
4. past hope, beyond recall, irreclaimable, unsalvageable, irreversible, irremediable, irreparable, beyond remedy, lost, gone.
5. insolvent, broken, bankrupt, Inf. broke, Inf. flat-broke, Inf. stone-broke, Sl. busted, Sl. flat; destitute, in the gutter, Sl. on the skids, shabby, seedy, down at the heels, out at the elbows.

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