ravaging
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8.7
- noun
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devastación
- This is an object of well-being, of promoting human health for the safe method of protecting individuals from the ravages of smallpox.
Examples
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But this is war against cholera, ravaging and killing.
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I thought it was me who was supposed to be doing the ravaging?
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We continue unabated in our ravaging of the earth body of the one who has given herself for us so that we might live.
Academic text (2000) -
With this, the ravaging of Pepe’s reputation in the public arena is complete.
Academic text (1996) -
Coyotes skulked through the sagebrush, tawny shapes waiting for his departure to resume their ravaging of the dead.
Fiction book (1992) -
This further ravaging of the majority of the world's peoples, just as they began trying to recover from the ravages of colonialism, is now joined by other social and economic causes of instability and upheaval in the South.
Academic text (1995) -
The emotional pain of Beatriz's strained relations with others parallels the physical ravaging of her body, as her father sometimes beats her, as several men try to rape her, and as she deliberately starves herself.
Academic text (2004) -
The ravaging of the once-thriving city left only ruins and memories of its former glory.
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Farmers struggled to recover from the ravaging that the recent storm caused to their crops.
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The documentary detailed the ravaging of the rainforest by illegal logging operations.
Synonyms
849
3.0
Severe damage that makes something no longer exist or cannot be fixed
90
4.8
Great destruction that leaves places badly damaged, for example after a war or storm
22
9.9
The violent taking and destruction of land and goods during war
14
8.8
An action that causes great damage to places and people
7
7.7
Taking things from places like shops during war or disaster
4
9.8
Damage and stealing caused by a violent attack
2
6.0
The act of taking valuable things by force, often during war
1
4.8
Damage across a large area that destroys buildings and homes
1
7.8
The act of completely destroying a building
A state of complete destruction that leaves a place ruined
Violent stealing and damage of things from a place
Antonyms
How Destructive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ravaging as a noun comes from the verb ravage, from the old French ravir meaning 'to seize' or 'plunder'. So, a ravaging is the act of taking and destroying a place or thing, leaving ruin behind.