Definitions:
" of a building, town, etc.: in a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration. now rare. in attributive use.

of land: exhausted and allowed to revert to the wild.

formerly cultivated land which has reverted to the wild; a tract of such land.

to reduce (a person) to a state of complete poverty; to deprive of moral or social standing. also reflexive. compare ""ruin"". now frequently regional.

to cause great and usually irreparable damage to (something). compare ""ruin"" now chiefly archaic and regional.

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