RAVAGING

ravaging

(adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting; “a ravaging illness”

ravaging, devastation

(noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

ravaging

present participle of ravage

Noun

ravaging (plural ravagings)

The act by which something is ravaged.

Source: Wiktionary


RAVAGE

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



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