'Ravage' definitions:
Definition of 'ravage'
From: WordNet
noun
(usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease" [syn: ravage, depredation]
verb
Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes [syn: harry, ravage]
verb
Definition of 'Ravage'
From: GCIDE
- Ravage \Rav"age\ (r[a^]v"[asl]j; 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. [1913 Webster]
- Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul? --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ravage'
From: GCIDE
- Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged (r[a^]v"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging (r[a^]v"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [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. [1913 Webster]
- Already Caesar Has ravaged more than half the globe. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ravage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- adulterate,
- alloy,
- banditry,
- beset,
- betray,
- betrayal,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- breakup,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- bring to ruin,
- canker,
- carnage,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consume,
- consumption,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- criminal assault,
- crush,
- damage,
- damn,
- damnation,
- deal destruction,
- debase,
- debauch,
- debauchment,
- deceive,
- decimate,
- decimation,
- defile,
- defilement,
- defloration,
- deflower,
- deflowering,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- demolish,
- demolition,
- denature,
- deprave,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desecrate,
- desolate,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devalue,
- devastate,
- devastation,
- devour,
- direption,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- distort,
- encroach,
- engorge,
- fleece,
- forage,
- foraging,
- foray,
- force,
- freeboot,
- freebooting,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- harry,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- incinerate,
- infect,
- infest,
- infestation,
- invade,
- invasion,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- lead astray,
- loot,
- looting,
- lousiness,
- maraud,
- marauding,
- mislead,
- misuse,
- overpower,
- overrun,
- overrunning,
- overspread,
- overspreading,
- overswarm,
- overswarming,
- overthrow,
- overwhelm,
- perdition,
- pervert,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plague,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prey on,
- priapism,
- prostitute,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransack,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravagement,
- ravages,
- ravaging,
- raven,
- ravish,
- ravishment,
- raze,
- razzia,
- reive,
- reiving,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rob,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- ruination,
- sack,
- sacking,
- scourge,
- seduce,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- sexual assault,
- shambles,
- shipwreck,
- slaughter,
- soil,
- spoil,
- spoiling,
- spoliate,
- spoliation,
- strip,
- sully,
- swallow up,
- swarm,
- swarm with,
- swarming,
- sweep,
- taint,
- teeming,
- throw into disorder,
- trespass,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- undoing,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- upheave,
- vandalism,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- violate,
- violation,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- waste,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreak havoc,
- wreck,
- wrecking