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Webster 1913 Edition


Ruinate

Ru′in-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[LL.
ruinatus
, p. p. of
ruinare
to ruin. See
Ruin
.]
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
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
ruinate
.
J. Webster.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ruinate

RU'INATE

,
Verb.
T.
To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty. [This word is ill formed and happily is become obsolete.]

Definition 2024


ruinate

ruinate

English

Verb

ruinate (third-person singular simple present ruinates, present participle ruinating, simple past and past participle ruinated)

  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 […].
    • 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.
  2. (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.

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