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Webster 1913 Edition
Ruinate
1.
To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.
I will not
ruinate
my f[GREEK]ther’s house. Shakespeare
Ruinating
thereby the health of their bodies. Burton.
2.
To cause to fall; to cast down.
On the other side they saw that perilous rock
Threatening itself on them to
Threatening itself on them to
ruinate
. Spenser.
Ru′in-ate
,Verb.
I.
To fall; to tumble.
[Obs.]
Ru′in-ate
,Adj.
[L.
ruinatus
, p. p.] Involved in ruin; ruined.
My brother Edward lives in pomp and state,
I in a mansion here all
I in a mansion here all
ruinate
. J. Webster.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ruinate
RU'INATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
ruinate
ruinate
English
Verb
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, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
- Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
- (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.