ravage

Speech parts

1. ravage - Noun

2. ravage - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

waste desolate devastate harry destroy ruin sack devastation plunder spoil pillage scourge depredation lay waste to flay
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Antonyms

constitution pap guard support development building
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Hypernyms

destroy destruction ruin demolition wipeout

Hyponyms

ruin

Phrases with the word

to ravage

Derivatives

ravaged ravaging

Examples

Any 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

Close letter words and terms

rauwolscine rav Rava-Ruska ravageable ravaged ravagement