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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ruinate .
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Examples
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“Had it not been for the diabolical seductiveness of that picture.” reported the Topeka Commonwealth, “they said they would never have come to Kansas to be ruinated and undone by grasshoppers.”
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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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?
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He would give away the shirt off his back, and the teeth out of his head; nay, as for that matter; he would have ruinated the family with his ridiculous charities, if it had not been for my four quarters — What between his willfullness and his waste, his trumps, and his frenzy, I lead the life of an indented slave.
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From Babylon I came by land to Mosul, which standeth nere to Niniue, which is all ruinated and destroyed: it standeth fast by the riuer of Tigris.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The towne it selfe is so ruinated that I take it rather to be a heape of stones then a towne.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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North: it is walled about, with a castle nigh to the sea, and one toward the land which is ruinated, but the walle thereof standeth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The castle and all the houses in the Towne, saue foure, were won, burnt, and ruinated by the Erle of Desmond.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And since that time it hath bene ruinated and ouerthrowen by
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Alexandria the most ancient citie in Africa situated by the seaside containeth seuen miles in circuite, and is enuironed with two walles one neere to the other with high towers, but the walles within be farre higher than those without, with a great ditch round about the same: yet is not this Citie very strong by reason of the great antiquitie, being almost halfe destroyed and ruinated.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 12. of August in the morning wee went on land to Limisso: this towne is ruinated and nothing in it worth writing, saue onely in the midst of the towne there hath bene a fortresse, which is now decayed, and the wals part ouerthrowen, which a Turkish Rouer with certaine gallies did destroy about 10. or 12. yeeres past.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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