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Definition of ravage:

  • (noun) a destructive action; "the ravages of time";
  • (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
  • (verb) devastate or ravage;

Sentence Examples:

Oh, that its ravages may soon be stopped!

Paris was at that time ravaged by cholera.

They are making sad ravages in the woods.

Plundered and ravaged, our own returned to us.

That is the ravage that the fever makes.

Again, these dreadful forest fires have ravaged them.

In the Huron country the ravages were severe.

During this expedition he had committed many ravages.

He was still round, but he was ravaged.

Their ships also were ravaged by an epidemic fever.

To the ravages of disease were added horrible murders.

It may have been by the ravages of fire.

See what ravages the flood made on the plateau.

Consumption and the diseases of vice ravage their numbers.

No one could feel himself safe from its ravages.

The ravages of such a life are something frightful.

There are no traces of the ravages of fire.

The ravages extended over a space of six leagues.

His nature is capable of ravaging flames of passion!

Shall he be suffered to ravage and run away?

Infectious diseases sometimes seized them, and made terrific ravages.

Moreover, no eye can look upon the internal ravage.

Greece is defiant, and her bands still ravage Macedonia.

They were secure from the ravages of maritime war.

"Prayer will not stop the ravages of cholera."

His body was wildly ravaged by a fever.

Such was its character, what were its ravages?

William accordingly ravaged the possessions of the monastery.

They commit great ravages in the cultivated grounds.

Its ravages were now most painful and distressing.

You cannot repair the ravages of age on the outside.

They commit extensive ravages upon sheep and poultry.

For two years England was free from ravage.

The countryside was ravaged and brought to ruin.

Fierce flames had ravaged the district, sparing nothing.

Nothing but metal is proof against its ravages.

Insects suffer much from the ravages of fungi.

The cholera committed dreadful ravages in the neighborhood.

To these ravages and injuries what did we oppose?

Four stand out prominently as having committed terrible ravages.

The people were faced with the ravages of famine.

The excitement within him was like a ravaging disease.

Rarely, however, do these first ravages cease of themselves.

Such are the ravages of the demon we hunt.

We shall all be ravaged and cooked, and eaten.

Of trying to stay the ravages of the enemy.

The ravages of war were visible on all sides.

For Love in a few Hours commits great Ravages.

I will introduce ravage and devastation among your provisions.

A land laid waste by the ravages of war?

And must I see you thus destroyed and ravaged!

Nor can anything be done to stop its ravages.

It has been destroyed by the ravages of time.

Nothing has been successfully used to stay its ravages.

Then came famine, ravaging a large part of Christendom.

There is no remedy for the ravages of death.

Happiness was more powerful than the ravages of disease.

Do kings and princes no longer ravage the earth?

Thus far we in England have escaped its ravages.

The whole forest was being ravaged by them!

Immunity from taxes for districts ravaged by war.

The city was conquered and ravaged many times.

To see and hear of nothing but ruin and ravage!

Great care will be needed to prevent ravages of insects.

Their homes were at no time safe from its ravages.

They produce extraordinary ravages, notwithstanding their insignificant appearance.

The Revolution committed but few ravages in Lower Normandy.

History records no end of their ravages and slaughters.

The right to plunder and ravage was not denied.

The ravages of fire and sword marked their progress.

Her strong features had resisted the ravages of time.

In modern ages war has not ravaged her lands.

There were terrible storms; the plague wrought fearful ravages.

Provinces were ravaged, and towns and castles were stormed.

The record of its ravages are almost beyond belief.

They ravaged far and wide in the western seas.

Gilroy, angrily showing the ravages made on the harnesses.

It was making the usual ravages among the cattle.

"Wonder if it's the ravages of the tender passion?"

This bird also commits great ravages in cultivated fields.

Inflation's ravages do not end at the water's edge.

They ravaged his collection of curious implements and machines.

Here we beheld the ravages of death commenced upon us.

They would ravage the city, tear it into little pieces.

Soon after, a bear came and ravaged the king's flocks.

Our frontiers were most cruelly ravaged by a barbarian foe.

There seems to be no means of checking their ravages.

The ravages made by disease were only too plainly visible.

Before Christmas Eve many of its ravages had been repaired.

It was I who pursued you, and ravaged your lands.

She died within a year from the ravages of tuberculosis.

The country had been ravaged by a series of famines.

It is extraordinary how it withstands the ravages of alcohol.

It was a signal illustration of the ravages of war.

They were certainly not immune from the ravages of disease.

The plague soon added its ravages to those of famine.

The surroundings were before the ravages of war very beautiful.

His voice was as unhappy as hers, his face ravaged.

What a ravage had laid that stretch of land desolate!

Its ravages are confined to no section of the country.