1. ravage - Noun
2. ravage - Verb
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.
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAny nose May ravage with impunity a rose. Robert Browning
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. Georges Duhamel
Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. James Beattie
They ravage and sweep away my banquet, and befoul and upset the cups, there is a violent stench and a sorry battle arises, for the monsters are as famished as I. What all have scorned or polluted with their touch, or what has fallen from their filthy claws, helps me to linger thus among the living. Gaius Valerius Flaccus
the ravages of time Source: Internet
the depredations of age and disease Source: Internet