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Ravage   /rˈævɪdʒ/   Listen
Ravage

noun
1.
(usually plural) a destructive action.  Synonym: depredation.  "The depredations of age and disease"
verb
(past & past part. ravaged; pres. part. ravaging)
1.
Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.  Synonym: harry.
2.
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.  Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste.






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"Ravage" Quotes from Famous Books



... broken rocks. Their clothing and shoes were cut to pieces, they were utterly worn out by two sleepless nights and two days' desperate fighting. They buried the brave soldiers in the valley, concealing their graves so that the Indians could not discover them and ravage them. Carrying their wounded in rude travels slung between horses and mules, and taking the body of brave young Madigan, who was buried in a lonely forgotten grave, one day's march from the battlefield, they ...
— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... deal not again for ever; Here change may come not till all change end. From the graves they have made they shall rise up never, Who have left nought living to ravage and rend. Earth, stones, and thorns of the wild ground growing, While the sun and the rain live, these shall be; Till a last wind's breath upon all these blowing ...
— Poems & Ballads (Second Series) - Swinburne's Poems Volume III • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... supplied with aquatic birds, and particularly wild ducks. Notwithstanding its extent, the island produces neither noxious nor carnivorous animals; the only things to be apprehended are the civet cat, which only preys upon birds, and the monkeys, which issue in troops from the forests to ravage the fields of maize and sugar-cane. The lake, which abounds with excellent fish, is less favoured in this respect than the land, for it contains numerous crocodiles and alligators, of such immense size ...
— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere

... deserted, and the inhabitants had betaken themselves to woods and caves. This was easily accounted for, considering the imminent dangers of a feud which all expected would become one of the most general signals for plunder and ravage that had ever ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott

... Priessnitz compresses to the abdomen, pellets of ice and meat jelly by mouth; eventually gastric ravage." ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.


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