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English Dictionary: ravage	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ravage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ravage n (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease" Synonym(s): ravage, depredation v make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes Synonym(s): harry, ravage cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" Synonym(s): lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravage \Rav"age\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. (assumed) L. rapagium, rapaticum, fr. rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See {Rapacious}, {Ravish}.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ravaging}.] [F. ravager. See {Ravage}, n.] To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. Already C[91]sar Has ravaged more than half the globe. --Addison. His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. --Macaulay. Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunger; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.