Urinate vs Ruinate - What's the difference?
urinate | ruinate |
(medicine) To pass urine from the body.
To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
To fall; to tumble.
Ruinate is a anagram of urinate.
As verbs the difference between urinate and ruinate
is that urinate is to pass urine from the body while ruinate is to reduce to ruins; to destroy.urinate
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Verb
(urinat)- 1877' ''See that the bladder is emptied just before he goes to bed. Wake him once or twice during the night, and have him '''urinate . Use all possible means to remove the cause of irritation by giving him plenty of out-of-door exercise and a very simple, though nutritious, diet.'' — John Harvey Kellogg,
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Usage notes
This is a medical term loaned from Latin, but some people prefer to use this word in some social situations as an alternative to (piss) which can be too vulgar and (pee), (wee), etc. which can sound embarrassingly childish. The same applies to the noun (urine).Synonyms
* do business * micturate * piss * take a leak * tinkle (euphemisms) * do a number one * go * go number one (juvenile, probably US only ) * do number one * have a pee * have a wee * make water * pee * piddle * relieve oneself * take a pee * take a wee * tinkle * wee * go see a man about a horse (vulgarisms) * drain one's pickle * drain the lizard * drain the main vein * have a leak * have a piss * have a slash * piss * point Percy at the porcelain * see a man about a horse * see a man about the plumbing * shake hands with the unemployed * slash * splash one's boots * siphon the python * take a piss * take a wicked yes * take a whizz * take care of business * whizz * See alsoAnagrams
* * * ----ruinate
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Verb
(ruinat)- Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate , / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
- as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.