RUINATE meaning: Cause to fall into disrepair

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ruinate: Merriam-Webster
ruinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ruinate: Collins English Dictionary
ruinate: Wordnik
ruinate: Wiktionary
ruinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ruinate: Infoplease Dictionary
Ruinate, ruinate: Dictionary.com
Ruinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ruinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Ruinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ruinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ruinate: FreeDictionary.org
ruinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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ruinate: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ruinate)

▸ verb:  (transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.
▸ adjective:  Falling into ruin; decrepit.

Similar:

wreck, destroy, degrade, waste, un-ruin, bewreck, spoil, race, level, confound, more...

Opposite:

build, construct, create, restore, revive

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