half-ruined
Britishadjective
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In 2008, Andrade bought a half-ruined adobe house on a 1,900-square-foot plot several blocks back from the genteel seaside mansions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Nestled among half-ruined buildings were the headquarters of institutions previously unknown to Saraqib: a poetry forum, a comedy troupe, a theatre company.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
At a half-ruined hospital in Palu, two dozen patients lay in beds outside, some under the shade of trees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2018
Instead he walked from one half-ruined crusader castle to another, carrying only his camera, a water bottle, a German pistol and a dog-eared copy of Baedeker’s “Handbook to Palestine and Syria.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2015
The Romans showed the same want of knowledge regarding this, the simplest law of hydraulics; vide the graceful, half-ruined arches which cross the Campagna to the very gates of the "Eternal City."
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
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