ravage
noun
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L326392 on Wikidata ↗verb
- destroy
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/
noun
Etymology: From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”).
- Grievous damage or havoc.
“Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul!”
- Depredation or devastation.
“the ravages of fire or tempest”
“the ravages of an army”
verb
Etymology: From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”).
- To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
“Already Cæſar Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.”
“But the most important service which Probus rendered to the republic was the deliverance of Gaul, and the recovery of seventy flourishing cities oppressed by the barbarians of Germany, who, since the death of Aurelian, had ravaged that great province with impunity.”
- To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
- To wreak destruction.
- To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- To rape.