Meaning of ruinate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
   archaic, transitive
2. To fall; to tumble.
   intransitive

Examples

“Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].”

“[…] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.”

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