Synonyms for ravages
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : rav-ij |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈræv ɪdʒ |
Top 10 synonyms for ravages Other synonyms for the word ravages
- annihilate
- break up
- capture
- cream
- crush
- desecrate
- desolate
- despoil
- dismantle
- disorganize
- exterminate
- extinguish
- forage
- foray
- harry
- lay waste
- leave in ruins
- loot
- overthrow
- pirate
- plunder
- prey
- prostrate
- pull down
- raid
- rape
- raze
- rob
- ruin
- sack
- seize
- shatter
- sink
- smash
- spoil
- spoliate
- stamp out
- strip
- sweep away
- total
- trample
- trash
- waste
- wreak havoc
- wreck
- wrest
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for ravages
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