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half-ruined

adjective

  1. badly damaged, decayed, or ruined


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A decade ago, he found debris covered in high grass around a half-ruined 19th-century mansion.

Farms, nearly all of them roofless and half-ruined, were dotted about over the country.

It was blowing hard out in the bay, but this corner was protected by a half-ruined house built on a projecting rock.

I have often more than half ruined myself by my complaisance; and, being afraid of controul, have brought controul upon myself.

Anxious to discover if he had at least escaped personal harm, Roland Graeme entered the half ruined cell.

For the twentieth time he looked up as he reached the point whence the lower battlements of the half-ruined castle were visible.

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