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Grammar : Verb
Spell : rav-ij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈræv ɪdʒ



Definition of ravage

Origin :
  • 1610s, from French ravager "lay waste, devastate," from Old French ravage "destruction," especially by flood (14c.), from ravir "to take away hastily" (see ravish). Related: Ravaged; ravaging.
  • verb destroy, ransack
Example sentences :
  • Perhaps this last abomination had been needed to ravage and cure him.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • They provoke no wars, they ravage no countries, they pursue no plunder.
  • Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
  • Disease began to ravage, with new violence, his exhausted frame.
  • Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
  • Why are they suffered to ravage the whole country at their will?'
  • Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
  • It is that you will spare one house in Italy from ravage and destruction.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Brood » by Duffield Osborne
  • France was one of their chief fields of ravage and slaughter.
  • Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
  • His was a whirlwind-visitation,—to ravage, ruin, and vanish.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 » by Various
  • Charles refused battle and allowed them to ravage the suburbs with impunity.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Paris » by Thomas Okey
  • They wish to obtain possession of our cities, and to ravage our provinces.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Crusaders » by John G. Edgar
  • A furious storm, he knew not what, seemed to ravage inside him.
  • Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence

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