RAVAGE

ravage, depredation

(noun) (usually plural) a destructive action; “the ravages of time”; “the depredations of age and disease”

harry, ravage

(verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)

(transitive) To devastate or destroy something.

(transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.

(intransitive) To wreak destruction.

Noun

ravage (plural ravages)

Grievous damage or havoc.

Depredation or devastation

Source: Wiktionary

Rav"age (; 48), n. Etym: [F., fr. (assumed) L. rapagium, rapaticum, fr. rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See Rapacious, Ravish.]

Definition: 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. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.

Syn.

– Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin.

Rav"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging.] Etym: [F. ravager. See Ravage, n.]

Definition: To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. Already Cæsar 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition