🔥 Very destructive 💥 Severe destruction

ravaging

2 7.4

Making people, places, or things suffer very severe damage

adjective
/ˈrævɪdʒɪŋ/

: devastador

In the New World, the Spanish referred to each ravaging epidemic as a mortandad, a death event of apocalyptic scale.

In the New World, the Spanish referred to each ravaging epidemic as a mortandad, a death event of apocalyptic scale.

Examples

This disease is ravaging the population, causing widespread illness and significant loss of life.
Experts say that it's ravaging their their rural state.
I mean she is ravaging the cultural fabric of society.
You know, I think that might be the title of of this podcast episode Ravage ravaging your brain so much.
The hurricane left a ravaging impact on the coastal towns, destroying homes and uprooting trees.
The war had a ravaging effect on the environment, leaving behind desolation and barren landscapes.

Synonyms

devastating

vsravaging

307 5.1

Causing very great damage or sadness

focuses more on wide physical destruction than emotional overwhelm

destructive

vsravaging

236 4.2

Causing great damage or harm

is more about ruinous wasting and severe physical devastation

ruinous

vsravaging

10 7.0

Causing very serious harm to people or businesses

emphasizes physical wasting and broad destructive effect rather than loss alone

blasting

vsravaging

1 6.1

Causing sudden harm or damage

is more about extensive continuing wasting than quick violent bursts

annihilating

vsravaging

NSFW

1 7.8

Something that causes complete destruction or total defeat

is severe and damaging but not necessarily implying total elimination

wasteful

vsravaging

Archaic

1 9.9

Causing great damage over a large area

is the common modern term for severe and ruinous destruction

exterminatory

vsravaging

1 9.1

Intended to destroy things completely

is about wide destructive damage rather than planned complete elimination

annihilative

vsravaging

1 9.9

Something that destroys completely, like a powerful bomb

describes ruinous wasting that is destructive but not always absolute

annihilatory

vsravaging

1 8.9

Causing total destruction

focuses on severe devastation rather than absolute and total removal

obliterative

vsravaging

9.1

Causing complete destruction so nothing is left

centers on ruining and wasting rather than full erasure of existence

Antonyms

to preserve

504 3.4

To keep people and things safe from harm or change

protecting

3 1.3

Keeping people and things safe from harm

How Destructive

devastating

307 5.1

ravaging

2 7.4

destructive

236 4.2

damaging

126 3.1

harmless

214 1.0

Surface Forms

ravaging positive

Morphology

ravaging = ravage (transparent) = ravage + ing

Formed regularly from the verb 'ravage' with '-ing' to indicate an ongoing destructive action or a participial adjective.

Etymology

Ravaging comes from the verb ravage, which comes from an old French word ravir meaning 'to seize' or 'plunder'. So, something ravaging is doing great damage, like a force that grabs and destroys everything in its path.