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ruinates

ruinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

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Questions about ruinates

What is ruinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ruinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ruinate.

Words near ruinates in the dictionary

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

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