mate vs ruin

mate and ruin both are nouns.

mate and ruin both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mate	Yes	No	Yes	No
ruin	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, ruin is a hyponym of mate; that is, ruin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mate:

mate: engage in sexual intercourse
ruin: deprive of virginity

Other hyponyms of mate include nick, bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, tread, serve, service, deflower, mount, ride, breed, cover, bugger, sodomise, sodomize, sodomise, sodomize.

mate (noun)	ruin (noun)
a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king	destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
an exact duplicate	a ruined building
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate	an event that results in destruction
a person's partner in marriage	failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)	the process of becoming dilapidated
the officer below the master on a commercial ship	an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
informal term for a friend of the same sex
a fellow member of a team
South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
one of a pair

mate (verb)	ruin (verb)
place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game	fall into ruin
engage in sexual intercourse	destroy completely; damage irreparably
bring two objects, ideas, or people together	reduce to ruins
	deprive of virginity
	reduce to bankruptcy
	destroy or cause to fail

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