ruinate

[ roo-uh-neyt ]

verb (used with object)

, ru·in·at·ed, ru·in·at·ing.

1. to ruin.

adjective

1. ruined.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ruinate¹

1530–40; < Medieval Latin ruīnātus, past participle of ruīnāre. See ruin, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

To second that the Pope in counsell sitts, For some rare stratagem they strayne their witts; November's 5th, by powder they decree Great Brytanes state ruinate should bee.

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Where civill warres doe threat to ruinate.’

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Watch fitter hours to think on wrongs than now; Death's frozen hand holds royal Philip's heart; Half of his body lies within a grave; Then do not now by quarrels shake that state, Which is already too much ruinate.

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Like conqu'ring tyrants, you our breasts invade; But soon you find new conquests out, and leave The ravag'd province ruinate and waste.

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In the course of his speech he further stated, that the object of the traitors was “to deprive the king of his crown; to murder the king, the queen, and the prince; to stir up rebellion and sedition in the kingdom; to bring a miserable destruction upon the subjects; to change, alter, and subvert the religion here established; to ruinate the state of the commonwealth, and to bring in strangers to invade it.”

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