reduced to cinders; burned or charred until mostly ash remains.
From cinder (a partially burned coal or wood) plus -ed (adjective suffix), meaning something has been burned down to cinders.
The phrase 'cindered ruins' appears in disaster literature because after major fires, what's left isn't ash but hard, brittle cinders that crunch underfoot.
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