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ravage

noun

1 ravage

usually plural A destructive action:
— The ravages of time.

synonym: depredation.

Roget 659: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession etc. 287; retrogradation etc. 283; decrease etc. 36.    ... show more

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Dutch: verwoesting

verb

1 ravage

Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.

synonym: harry.

2 ravage

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.

synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste.

Dutch: verwoesten


adjective

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more

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 ... show more.

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