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rooned

rooned adjective: ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.

Adjective

rooned (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.
    • There is a sense that 'we'll all be rooned' no matter what action is taken. That the War on Terror is exacerbating the problem rather than alleviating it.2007, Aidan Carvill, Everyone's a Breather!: Open Source Code to Humanity, page 3
    • On the one hand, 'we'll all be rooned', it is such a catastrophe; and on the other, let's get to it, there's still so much to be done.2014, Timothy Neale, Crystal McKinnon, Eve Vincent, History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, page 265

Origin of rooned

From "we'll all be rooned" (i.e. ruined), the refrain of a pessimistic character in John O'Brien's 1921 poem Said Hanrahan.

Questions about rooned

What does rooned mean?
Rooned means ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.
What part of speech is rooned?
Rooned is an adjective.

Words near rooned in the dictionary

  1. roomthy
  2. roomward
  3. roomwise
  4. roomy
  5. roon
  6. rooned
  7. Rooney
  8. Rooneyesque
  9. roop
  10. Roopa
  11. rooped

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