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单词 ruinating
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ruinatingn.

Forms: 1500s–1700s 1700s ruinating, 1600s ruinatinge.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ruinate v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < ruinate v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier ruining n.
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.

Brit. /ˈruːᵻneɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈruəˌneɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ruinate v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < ruinate v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier ruinating n.
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.
2. Falling into ruin; decaying. Obsolete.
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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