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ruinating

ruinating is the present participle and gerund 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 ruinating

What is ruinating the present participle and gerund of?
Ruinating is the present participle and gerund of ruinate.

Words near ruinating in the dictionary

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

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