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S vs Ruinate - What's the difference?

s | ruinate |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb ruinate is

to reduce to ruins; to destroy.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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.

    • Anagrams

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