ravages

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English

Definitions

noun

Grievous damage or havoc.
Depredation or devastation“the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time”

verb

To devastate or destroy something.
To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
To wreak destruction.

noun

Harsh damage.“The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.”

Related words

Synonyms

devastate waste harry desolate lay waste to destruction ruin shambles evils damages yards harms sacks abuses agonies blows

Associated

bubonic scurvy plague devastation famine smallpox apocalypse wrought spared epidemic thirty countryside

Rhymes

ravage his savage his savage is savages

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