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

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

Fayre be ye sure, but proud and pitilesse, As is a storme, that all things doth prostrate; Finding a tree alone all comfortlesse, Beats on it strongly, it to ruinate.

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

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

Many tymes the saiyng backe, backe, hath made to ruinate an armie; therfore this voice ought not to be used, but in steede therof to use, retire you.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres

I only wanted the ole folks here to be satisfied as the gal had no right to my ole man, and would only ruinate herself, if she took him.”

From Her Mother's Secret by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

A second and quite unpretentious gateway admitted them to a green meadow, in shape a rough semicircle, enclosed by ruinated walls.

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

I'm ruinated for a fact; I might as well be in hell as in Maryland.'

From Duffels by Edward Eggleston

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

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

“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

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