Search for crossword answers and clues
Wreak destruction, in Dixie
Answer for the clue "Wreak destruction, in Dixie ", 7 letters:
ruinate
Alternative clues for the word ruinate
Word definitions for ruinate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruinate \Ru"in*ate\, a. [L. ruinatus, p. p.] Involved in ruin; ruined. My brother Edward lives in pomp and state, I in a mansion here all ruinate. --J. Webster.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive now rare English) To reduce to ruins; to destroy. 2 (context intransitive English) To fall; to tumble.
Usage examples of ruinate.
I wyll the as holdynge the place of My generalle ther, that thow enter forcybly ynto the sayd cuntrie and doe with al dilygence spoyl ravysche and depopulate that lande, enslavying oppressyng and puttyng to the dethe as thow shalt thynke moost servychable al them that shal fall ynto thy powre, and in pertyculer pullyng downe and ruinating all thayr stronge houlds or castels, as Galinge, Dreppabie, Crothryng, Owleswyke, and othere.
I wyll the, as holdynge the place of My generalle ther, that thow enter forcybly ynto the sayd cuntrie and doe with al dilygence spoyl ravysche and depopulate that lande, enslavying oppressyng and puttyng to the dethe as thow shalt thynke moost servychable al them that shal fall ynto thy powre, and in pertyculer pullyng downe and ruinating all thayr stronge houlds or castels, as Galinge, Dreppabie, Crothryng, Owleswyke, and othere.
You are the fellow that ruinated my little shop," screamed the fussy man with the goatee.
Massa Miles call mah gran’pappy in an’ say, ‘Bob, yo’all is free an’ I’se a ruinated man.
Massa Miles call mah gran'pappy in an' say, 'Bob, yo'all is free an' I'se a ruinated man.