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Definitions for: Ravage
[n] (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depradations of age and disease"
[v] devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
[v] make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
Webster (1913) Definition: Rav"age (?; 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.
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.] [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.
Already C[ae]sar 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.
Synonyms: depredation, desolate, devastate, harry, lay waste to, waste
See Also: demolition, destroy, destruction, ruin
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