单词 | ruinating |
释义 | † ruinatingn. Obsolete. The action of ruining someone or something. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] end832 bale-sithea1000 wrakea1275 wonderc1275 destroyingc1300 destruction1340 contritionc1384 stroying1396 undoing1398 tininga1400 ruinc1425 fatec1430 fordoingc1450 perishing?1523 shipwreck1526 pernicion?1530 ruining1562 ruinating1587 defeasance1590 defeature1592 breakneck1598 ruination1599 defeat1600 doom1609 planet-striking1611 mismaking1615 rasurea1616 destructa1638 perition1640 interemption1656 smashing1821 degrowth1876 uncreation1884 creative destruction1927 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 48/2 The effusion of innocent bloud, the population of countries, the ruinating of ample regions. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 4 The principall meanes of the ruinating of all mortall bodies. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 199 The sodaine ruinating of Townes by the Saxons. 1642 in J. B. Williams Eng. Journalism (1908) 34 This was the first step to the ruinating of the tribe of clerks. 1689 T. Danforth Let. 30 July in Coll. Papers Hist. Colony Massachusetts-Bay 568 They deeply resent his correspondency with that wicked man Mr. Randolph for..getting to himself so many bags of money, to the ruinating of trade. 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy iii. 213 Air..whose alteration from heat to cold, and from moisture to driness, is the principal means of the ruinating of all mortal Bodies. 1777 I. Backus Hist. New-Eng. I. i. 27 The Lord Jesus speaks of the utter ruinating and destruction of the tares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021). ruinatingadj. 1. That ruins someone or something; destructive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 1595 W. Covell Polimanteia sig. Ff2v Whilest these ruinating ambitious plotts..haue risen vp like a Pyramides in the greatest Kingdomes, Englands Soueraigne hath sitten confident. 1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. D3 Free from the mallice..of ruinating Time and the enuious blasts of Fortune. 1688 S. Sewall Diary 10 Jan. (1973) I. 157 Not abiding in, or apostatizing from Christ, is a ruinating evil. 1720 T. Boston Human Nature viii. 418 'Tis not the invenom'd ruinating Thing, wrapt up in the Sanction of the first Covenant. 1799 J. Scott tr. Ināyat Allāh Bahar-Danush II. xxvi. 307 The ruinating hailstones beat upon the garden. 1834 G. L. Stevens Patriot ii. iv. 56 O, the ruinating murthering scoundrels! 1951 H. P. Hall in R. N. Frye Near East & Great Powers (1969) ii. 34 In Iran the Majlis and Constitution of 1906 came into being as a means of restricting the arbitrary and ruinating power of the Shah. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > becoming dilapidated or ruinous ruinatinga1661 ruining1685 dilapidating1781 wrecking1903 a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 173 Small parcels of the walls..continue, surviving monuments of that ruinating, large, and stately fabric. 1797 J. T. Smith Remarks on Rural Scenery 9 We then turn from this neatness and regularity, to what we [sc. artists] must esteem a far more profitable subject—the neglected fast-ruinating cottage—the patched plaster, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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