ruinate

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English

Etymology

From the participle stem of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ruino.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. (transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
      Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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.
  2. (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.

Adjective

ruinate (not comparable)

  1. Falling into ruin; decrepit.

Anagrams

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