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Ruinate   Listen
verb
Ruinate  v. t.  
1.
To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin. "I will not ruinate my father's house." "Ruinating thereby the health of their bodies."
2.
To cause to fall; to cast down. "On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening itself on them to ruinate."





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"Ruinate" Quotes from Famous Books



... our owne, when as y^t old serpente could not prevaile by those firie flames & other his cruell tragedies, which he[C] by his instruments put in ure every wher in y^e days of queene Mary & before, he then begane an other kind of warre, & went more closly to worke; not only to oppuggen, but even to ruinate & destroy y^e kingdom of Christ, by more secrete & subtile means, by kindling y^e flames of contention and sowing y^e seeds of discorde & bitter enmitie amongst y^e proffessors & seeming reformed them selves. For when he could not prevaile by y^e former means against ...
— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' • William Bradford


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