ruinate
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ruinate
1530–40; < Medieval Latin ruīnātus, past participle of ruīnāre. See ruin, -ate 1
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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
Look here, I throw my infamy at thee; I will not ruinate my father's house, Who gave his blood to lime the stones together, And set up Lancaster.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
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
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
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
Salina is a ruinated citie, and was destroyed by the Turke ten yeeres past: there are in it now but seuenteene persons, women and children.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
Don't you go and be too hard on a poor ruinated old man.
From Duffels by Edward Eggleston
The counthry is ruinated intirely, an' so it is.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
A loss so unrecoverable that unlesse the whole land in pitty set to their devotions, it is like never to re-obtain the former estate, but continue like ruinated Troy, or decayed Carthage.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
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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