ruinate
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Etymology edit
From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
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ruinate (third-person singular simple present ruinates, present participle ruinating, simple past and past participle ruinated)
- (transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
- […] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
- (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.
Adjective edit
ruinate (not comparable)
- Falling into ruin; decrepit.
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Verb edit
ruinate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ruinar combined with te