ruinate
[verb]
Synonyms: destroy, annihilate, demolish, destruct, raze, ruin, smash, tear down, wrack, wreck

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ruinate adjective. ['ru:ɪneɪt] M16.
[medieval Latin ruinatus pa. pple, formed as RUINATE verb: see -ATE².]
1. Of a building, town, etc.: ruined, ruinous. M16.
b. Of land: exhausted, abandoned. M19.

2. Injured; spoiled; wrecked. Now rare. L16.

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ruinate verb. ['ru:ɪneɪt] M16.
[medieval Latin ruinat- pa. ppl stem of ruinare: see RUIN verb, -ATE³.]
I. verb trans.
1. = RUIN verb 2. M16.

2. Impoverish; deprive of resources, status, etc. M16.

3. = RUIN verb 1. M16-M18.

4. Damage or change irrevocably; spoil, wreck. arch. L16.

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ruinate(2)
II. verb intrans.

5. Go or fall to ruin. M16.

6. Fall with a crash. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.

■ ruinated adjective (a) (now rare) decayed, fallen down, in ruins; (b) impoverished; subverted; brought into decline: M16.

■ rui'natious adjective (US) ruinous M19.

■ ruinator noun (rare) a person who ruins someone or something M17.

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