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ruinated

ruinated is the simple past and past participle of ruinate.

Meaning of ruinate

Verb

ruinate (third-person singular simple present ruinates, present participle ruinating, simple past and past participle ruinated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.

See all 3 meanings of ruinate

Forms of ruinated

comparativemore ruinated
superlativemost ruinated

Words formed from ruinated

Questions about ruinated

What is ruinated the simple past and past participle of?
Ruinated is the simple past and past participle of ruinate.

Words near ruinated in the dictionary

  1. ruin'd
  2. ruin-restoration creationism
  3. ruina montium
  4. ruinable
  5. ruinate
  6. ruinated
  7. ruinates
  8. ruinating
  9. ruination
  10. ruinations
  11. ruinatious

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