Antonyms for ravager
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rav-ij |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈræv ɪdʒ |
Definition of ravager
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.
- As in looter : noun thief
- As in marauder : noun pillager, raider
- As in bandit : noun thief
- As in vandal : noun person who defiles property
- As in rapist : noun attacker
- As in plunderer : noun robber
- All the crops, as far as it extended its flight, fell before this ravager.
- Extract from : « An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. I (of 4) » by William Kirby
- What a good thing it was he had not killed the ravager of his home!
- Extract from : « The Money Master, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- He looked back at the pack working out his line in the fields below him, and saw that Ravager was at their head.
- Extract from : « Lives of the Fur Folk » by M. D. Haviland
- This checked the hounds for a moment, but Ravager cast forward, and presently they came on faster than ever.
- Extract from : « Lives of the Fur Folk » by M. D. Haviland
- We speak with dread of the beasts of prey: what beast of prey is so dire a ravager as man,—so cruel and so treacherous?
- Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- A grey bear visited the folds at Hleithargarth; many such a ravager was there far and wide throughout the country.
- Extract from : « Beowulf » by R. W. Chambers
- Congestion of the lungs vies with sleeping sickness as the ravager of Middle Africa, and especially certain parts of the Congo.
- Extract from : « An African Adventure » by Isaac F. Marcosson
- The good fortune that secured me the ravaged pupa taught me nothing concerning the tactics of the ravager.
- Extract from : « The Life of the Fly » by J. Henri Fabre
- Has this pigmy of the family the same talents as the giant, the ravager of the oak-tree?
- Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre
- In the centre of this circle was placed the Ravager of the World, and round it a rampart of shields.
- Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Synonyms for ravager
- bandit
- betrayer
- brigand
- buccaneer
- corsair
- criminal
- crook
- debaucher
- defacer
- defiler
- depredator
- desperado
- despoiler
- destroyer
- forager
- freebooter
- gangster
- gunperson
- highwayperson
- hijacker
- holdup person
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- looter
- marauder
- mischief-maker
- mobster
- outlaw
- pilferer
- pillager
- pirate
- plunderer
- racketeer
- raider
- ransacker
- raper
- rapparee
- ravager
- ravisher
- robber
- spoiler
- thief
- vandal
- villain
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