ruinate
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ruinate
1530–40; < Medieval Latin ruīnātus, past participle of ruīnāre. See ruin, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Trêves belongs to Prussia, and not to “Holy Church;” and all the old splendours of the “empire of the saints” are almost as much ruinate as those of the “empire of the Romans.”
From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles
Whilom Fitzwater, in fair England's court, Possess'd felicity and happy state, And in his hall blithe fortune kept her sport, Which glee one hour of woe did ruinate.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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 Malet, Lucas
Of the whole area of the estates, 3,555 acres are in pasturage, and 28,552 acres inaccessible or ruinate.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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
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
The towne it selfe is so ruinated that I take it rather to be a heape of stones then a towne.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
The counthry is ruinated intirely, an' so it is.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
Are they not all defaced? are they not all ruinated? are they not all conuerted to powder and dust?
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second by Holinshed, Raphael
I'm ruinated for a fact; I might as well be in hell as in Maryland.'
From Duffels by Eggleston, Edward
“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 Holt, Emily Sarah
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 Dickens, Charles
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