ruinate

American  

[roo-uh-nayt] / ˈru əˌneɪt /

verb (used with object)

ruinated, ruinating

1. to ruin.

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adjective

1. ruined.

Etymology

Origin of ruinate

1530–40; < Medieval Latin ruīnātus, past participle of ruīnāre. See ruin, -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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ruinate ruinated ruinating

The house, save for the actual fabric of it, had become rather dilapidated and ruinate.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet

The accusation of a man on hearsay is nothing: would he accuse himself on passion and ruinate his case and posterity out of malice to accuse you?

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen

And though your frames do for a time make warre Gainst Time, yet Time in time shall ruinate Your workes and names, and your last reliques marre.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

Time ill-consum'd to ruinate our house; But what are they that keep him company?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

Mad, man, at my state, That cannot raise true honour ruinate.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Henrico, now Richmond, there were no more than "three old houses, a poor ruinated Church, with some few poore buildings in the Islande."

From Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

From Bagdat I went by land to Mosul, which stands near the scite of the ancient Nineveh, which is all ruinated and destroyed.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

He took me to it: a bleak, decayed building, half ruinated, the slated pavement uneven as the waves of the sea, the plastered walls dripping with saline ooze.

From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Robert de Louthorp, is now partly ruinated, the tower and chancel being almost entirely overgrown with ivy.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884 by Various

“You have seen enough of the fishes for one morrow,” returned Barbara relentlessly; “and if the fishes could see you, they should cry shame upon you for ruinating of your raiment by the damp grass.”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt

And here's Mrs. Cruncher, or leastways wos in the Old England times, and would be to-morrow, if cause given, a floppin' again the business to that degree as is ruinating—stark ruinating!

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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