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Ruinate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin. I will not ruinate my fShak. Ruinating thereby the health of their bodies. Burton.

2. To cause to fall; to cast down. On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening itself on them to ruinate. Spenser.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To fall; to tumble. [Obs.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Involved in ruin; ruined. My brother Edward lives in pomp and state, I in a mansion here all ruinate. J. Webster.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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