This carpet’s as good as ruined.ruinedru‧ined /ˈruːɪnd/ adjective [only before noun] 
a ruined castle → ruin2
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- At the oldest and most ruined building, they stopped and Mr Bumble took out his piece of paper.
- Other places to explore include the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and the ruined city of Selinute.
- The earliest known is the Apollo at Athens, pre-500, found with later works in a ruined warehouse at Piraeus.
- The wind howled and the surf continued to roar as we explored beyond our landing point; we visited a ruined chapel.
- There was a good bookshop, and a large ruined building, gaunt and flaking, the Hibernian Hall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES This carpet’s as good as ruined.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
a ruined building has been almost completely destroyed: This carpet’s as good as ruined.· At home the prevailing taste was for more picturesque remains, ruined abbeys and medieval churches.· For a second or two the moon escapes from behind the rushing clouds casting silvery shadows on the ruined abbey.· At that moment they reached the ruined abbey and she fell silent at its sheer beauty.· St Albans with its Verulamium, ruined abbey and rose gardens is 15 miles away.
· There was a good bookshop, and a large ruined building, gaunt and flaking, the Hibernian Hall.· At the oldest and most ruined building, they stopped and Mr Bumble took out his piece of paper.· Follow this, bearing left to reach some small ruined buildings and a water race.· Not a waterside bird, frequenting dry country and nesting on rocky cliffs and stream banks, sometimes on ruined buildings.· They moved on, following it up to the first of the ruined buildings.· Two men with muddied faces and bracken on their helmets are in a ruined building, trying to spot an enemy rifleman.
· At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.· Combe Sydenham country park has beautiful walks and tasty trout for sale whilst Stogursey boasts a moated ruined castle and Norman church.· Abergavenny is a bustling market town with a museum in the grounds of a ruined castle.· Tintagel with its ruined castle is closely associated with the legend of King Arthur.· We drove through placid scenery, past a ruined castle and so into Tuam.· St Andrews still has an attractive, if not overworked, little harbour below the gaunt shapes of ruined castle and cathedral.· It has a ruined castle, an interesting local history museum, and its own school of painters.· That was in a bay overlooked by a ruined castle straight out of Macbeth.
a ruined castle → ruin2