Definition of Ruinated

1. Verb. (past of ruinate) ¹

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Definition of Ruinated

1. ruinate [v] - See also: ruinate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruinated

rugose
rugosely
rugosities
rugosity
rugous
rugrat
rugrats
rugs
rugula
rugulah
rugulose
ruhmkorff's coil
ruin
ruinable
ruinate
ruinated (current term)
ruinates
ruinating
ruination
ruinations
ruined
ruiner
ruiners
ruing
ruings
ruiniform
ruining
ruinings
ruinous
ruinously

Literary usage of Ruinated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"What town of any antiquity or note hath not been once, again and again, by the fury of this merciless element, defaced, ruinated, and left desolate ? ..."

2. The Holyhead Road: The Mail-coach Road to Dublin by Charles George Harper (1902)
"... a deserted and ruinated windmill, and le;i'_ru.^ upon league* <>ï distant country, unfolded to the startled eye. ..."

3. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1874)
"ruinated and not waste belonging to the Dean only :— " The church of Wells, ... Churches being ruinated but the land not waste in the several Deaneries ..."

4. The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society (1864)
"In Ballimore peece, a Church ded. to the B. Virgin Mother, ruinated; the Golden Chalice thereof plundered by ..."

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