Antonyms for ravages

Grammar : Verb

Spell : rav-ij

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræv ɪdʒ

Definition of ravages

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 :

He looked into his own heart—he was almost afraid to look—and saw the ravages of disease there.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

She stood under the chandelier, and he saw at once the ravages that trouble had made in her.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

In the Coupeau household the vitriol of l'Assommoir was also commencing its ravages.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

The ravages to which her heart was subjected, proved still more terrible.
Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola

The war was such that all dwelling in the midst of its ravages must choose their side.
Extract from : « King Philip » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

The soil was of the best, but ruined by the ravages of the Thracians, precisely as he had been told.
Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon

And when he ravages their land, and takes away their cattle and their corn, does he not do justly?
Extract from : « The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates » by Xenophon

Hitherto this lovely spot had escaped all the ravages of war.
Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles Lever

But the path of these demoniac men was marked by the ravages of fiends.
Extract from : « Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi » by John S. C. Abbott

On examining the face of the punter who had made these ravages I guessed the game.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Synonyms for ravages

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