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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H. Alas, for woe! alack, that so great state The malice of this world should 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
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 Stephen, Harry Lushington, Sir
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
Mad, man, at my state, That cannot raise true honour ruinate.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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