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    Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged
    (r[a^]v"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging
    (r[a^]v"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. ravager. See Ravage, n.]
    To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit
    havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
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    Already Caesar
    Has ravaged more than half the globe. --Addison.
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    His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.
    --Macaulay.
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    Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate;
    desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    Ravage \Rav"age\ (r[a^]v"[asl]j; 48), n. [F., fr. (assumed) L.
    rapagium, rapaticum, fr. rapere to carry off by force, to
    ravish. See Rapacious, Ravish.]
    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.
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    Would one think 't were possible for love
    To make such ravage in a noble soul? --Addison.
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    Syn: Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder;
    spoil; waste; ruin.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    ravage
    n : (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of
    time"; "the depradations of age and disease" [syn: depredation]
    v 1: make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in
    wartimes [syn: harry]
    2: devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside
    after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate,
    desolate, scourge]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    192 Moby Thesaurus words for "ravage":
    abuse, adulterate, alloy, banditry, beset, betray, betrayal,
    bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism,
    bring to ruin, canker, carnage, cheapen, coarsen, condemn,
    confound, consume, consumption, contaminate, corrupt, crawl with,
    creep with, criminal assault, crush, damage, damn, damnation,
    deal destruction, debase, debauch, debauchment, deceive, decimate,
    decimation, defile, defilement, defloration, deflower, deflowering,
    degenerate, degrade, demolish, demolition, denature, deprave,
    depredate, depredation, desecrate, desolate, desolation, despoil,
    despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction,
    devalue, devastate, devastation, devour, direption, disintegration,
    disorganization, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, distort,
    encroach, engorge, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, force,
    freeboot, freebooting, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire,
    harry, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incinerate, infect, infest,
    infestation, invade, invasion, lay in ruins, lay waste,
    lead astray, loot, looting, lousiness, maraud, marauding, mislead,
    misuse, overpower, overrun, overrunning, overspread, overspreading,
    overswarm, overswarming, overthrow, overwhelm, perdition, pervert,
    pillage, pillaging, plague, plunder, plundering, poison, pollute,
    prey on, priapism, prostitute, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking,
    rape, rapine, ravagement, ravages, ravaging, raven, ravish,
    ravishment, raze, razzia, reive, reiving, rifle, rifling, rob,
    ruin, ruinate, ruination, sack, sacking, scourge, seduce,
    seducement, seduction, sexual assault, shambles, shipwreck,
    slaughter, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, strip,
    sully, swallow up, swarm, swarm with, swarming, sweep, taint,
    teeming, throw into disorder, trespass, twist, ulcerate, undoing,
    unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalism,
    vandalize, vaporize, violate, violation, vitiate, vulgarize, warp,
    waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck, wrecking

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