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Definition of ravage

(usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depradations of age and disease"
devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

Similar Words: depredation, lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, scourge, harry

Hyponyms: ruin

Derivational Morphology: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, scourge, harry, bane, curse, nemesis, depredation, ravaging, devastation, bleakness, desolation, destruction, destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter

Anagrams: graver, greave

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