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Definition of Ravage
1. Noun. (usually plural) a destructive action. "The depredations of age and disease"
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Generic synonyms: Demolition, Destruction, Wipeout
2. Verb. Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.
3. Verb. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Generic synonyms: Destroy, Ruin
Specialized synonyms: Ruin
Derivative terms: Desolation, Desolation, Desolation, Devastation, Devastation, Devastation, Devastation, Ravaging, Scourge, Waster
Definition of Ravage
1. 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.
2. v. t. To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Definition of Ravage
1. Verb. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To wreak destruction ¹
4. Noun. Grievous damage or havoc ¹
5. Noun. Depredation or devastation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ravage
1. to destroy [v -AGED, -AGING, -AGES] - See also: destroy
Medical Definition of Ravage
1. 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?" (Addison) Synonym: Despoilment, devastation, desolation, pillage, plunder, spoil, waste, ruin. Origin: F, fr. (assumed) L. Rapagium, rapaticum, fr. Rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See Rapacious, Ravish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravage
Literary usage of Ravage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"ravage is employed likewise in the moral application ; desolation and ...
Wonld one think 'twere possible for love To make sach ravage in a noble soul ? ..."
2. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"Invasion and ravage of Attica by the Peloponnesians. Operations of the Athenian
Flett in the Western Seas under Carcinus: Gallant Action of the Spartan ..."
3. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"Stephen Biiig to Dr. Sancroft Dean of St. Pauls : upon the ravage of the Great
Plague. [MS. HARL. 3783. fol. 41. Orig.] 1 .* I; i this and some succeeding ..."
4. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"... and ravage of Attica by the Peloponnesians. Operations of the Athenian Flest
in the Western Seas under Carcinus: Gallant Action of the Spartan . ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"In 832 they ravage Dorsetshire about Portland, and so on, till emboldened, just
as was the case before, they came up the ..."
6. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"During this ravage of the land of Egypt by the Babylonians, most of the Jews,
who had fled thither after the murder of Gedaliah, fell into their hands. ..."
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