Antonyms for ravaging

Grammar : Verb

Spell : rav-ij

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræv ɪdʒ

Definition of ravaging

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 :

The years 1239 and 1240 were spent in ravaging southern Russia.
Extract from : « The Story of Russia » by R. Van Bergen, M.A.

It surprised her to hear that it was ravaging an island like Inishrua.
Extract from : « Lady Bountiful » by George A. Birmingham

Bands of marauders were ravaging the gardens of the countryside.
Extract from : « Putois » by Anatole France

The city will be taken, the looting and ravaging already begun.
Extract from : « Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation » by S. D. Gordon

An epidemic was ravaging the town, and he was urged to go away.
Extract from : « A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times » by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

The war which was ravaging Vervignole also ruined the Church in Trinqueballe.
Extract from : « The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas » by Anatole France

One thing was the ravaging of his plantation by the British.
Extract from : « The Story of John Paul Jones » by Chelsea Curtis Fraser

Revolutionary propaganda was said to have been ravaging the Italian soldier's mind.
Extract from : « The Challenge of the Dead » by Stephen Graham

In ravaging the fields of the former, two of the Frenchmen were slain.
Extract from : « The Lily and the Totem » by William Gilmore Simms

Floods, with their ravaging effects, would then become impossible.
Extract from : « Woman and Socialism » by August Bebel

Synonyms for ravaging

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