"ruinate" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin ruino",
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  "etymology_text": "From the participle stem of Latin ruino.",
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      "form": "ruinates",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "ruinated",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": ", New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51",
          "text": "[…] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies."
        }
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        "To reduce to ruins; to destroy."
      ],
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          "destroy",
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        "(transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "glosses": [
        "To fall; to tumble."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To fall; to tumble."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹuːɪneɪt/",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Falling into ruin; decrepit."
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        "not-comparable"
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  "etymology_text": "From the participle stem of Latin ruino.",
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    {
      "form": "ruinates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ruinating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "ruinated",
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        "participle",
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          "text": "[…] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies."
        }
      ],
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        "To reduce to ruins; to destroy."
      ],
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          "destroy",
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        "(transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "transitive"
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        "To fall; to tumble."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To fall; to tumble."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Falling into ruin; decrepit."
      ],
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