Ruinate
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈɹuËɪneɪt/
Origin
From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
Full definition of ruinate
Verb
- (transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate,
In your auengement and dispiteous rage ... - 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 51:... as in lust, animals covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
- (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.