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ruinate

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English

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Etymology

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From the participle stem of Latin ruino.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. (transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
  2. (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.

Adjective

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ruinate (not comparable)

  1. Falling into ruin; decrepit.

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Verb

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ruinate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ruinar combined with te