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Ruinate vs Pruinate - What's the difference?

ruinate | pruinate |

As a verb ruinate

is to reduce to ruins; to destroy.

As an adjective pruinate is

pruinose.

ruinate

English

Verb

(ruinat)
  • To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
    • Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate , / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
    • as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
  • To fall; to tumble.

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    pruinate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pruinose
    • (Webster 1913)