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Definition of Ravage
1. Verb. Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.
2. Noun. (usually plural) a destructive action. "The depredations of age and disease"
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Generic synonyms: Demolition, Destruction, Wipeout
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)
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