ruinate
adjEtymology From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
1
Falling into ruin; decrepit.
ruinate
verbUK /ˈɹuːɪneɪt/
Etymology From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
1
Archaic To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
- Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51
2
To fall; to tumble.