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Ruins vs Ruinate - What's the difference?

ruins | ruinate |

As verbs the difference between ruins and ruinate

is that ruins is (ruin) while ruinate is to reduce to ruins; to destroy.

As a noun ruins

is .

ruins

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (ruin)
    • ----

    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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