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Ravage   /rˈævɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Ravage  n.  Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. "Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul?"
Synonyms: Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin.



verb
Ravage  v. t.  (past & past part. ravaged; pres. part. ravaging)  To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. "Already Caesar Has ravaged more than half the globe." "His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away."
Synonyms: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.






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"Ravage" Quotes from Famous Books



... might offer her. Ah, woful mistake was that! For, in her anger at the slight, Artemis sent a savage boar, with ivory tusks and foaming mouth, to overrun the lands of Calydon. Many a field did the monster ravage, many a tree uproot; and all the growing vines, which late had borne so rich a vintage, ...
— Hero Tales • James Baldwin

... ravage of the Revolution has much defaced this town. La Place de Belle Cour was once the finest square which any provincial town in Europe could boast. It was composed of the most magnificent houses, the habitations of such of the nobility as were accustomed ...
— Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 • Lt-Col. Pinkney

... "Ships are in the offing, and many of them too! It must be the fleet of Philip of Spain come to ravage ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston

... considered the history of mankind, know that every age has its peculiar character. At one time, no desire is felt but for military honours; every summer affords battles and sieges, and the world is filled with ravage, bloodshed, and devastation: this sanguinary fury at length subsides, and nations are divided into factions, by controversies about points that will never be decided. Men then grow weary of debate ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... into the khud, where the monster Kabuli was coming to. He managed to raise one hand, but the movement of the fingers somehow struck the pity from Carlin's heart. It was not a clean gesture of a chastened man. Even though his body was terribly bruised and broken, the face was that of Ravage in person. Carlin pulled her companion on. They hastened to the bungalow where the tied pack was in evidence and strange sounds reached them from the ...
— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost


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