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Definition of Ruinate
1. v. t. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.
2. v. i. To fall; to tumble.
3. a. Involved in ruin; ruined.
Definition of Ruinate
1. Verb. (rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruinate
1. to ruin [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES] - See also: ruin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruinate
Literary usage of Ruinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"29 ] ruinate, to bring to ruin, 3H6. vi 83. rule—This uncivil, iaN. ii. 3.
132: "Rule. Apparently put for behaviour or conduct; with some allusion perhaps ..."
2. The West Indies: Their Social and Religious Condition by Edward Bean Underhill (1862)
"... Cultivation—Mount Hermon—Opinions of the People—Wages and Labour—Character of
the People—Why Estates are ruinate—Two Classes of Labourers—Employment of ..."
3. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"... to beat downe his pride, ind to ruinate his puissance. Dedicated to the Kings,
Princes, Potentates and ..."
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