RAVAGE Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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ravage

[ rav-ij ]

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verb (used with object)

ravaged, ravaging.

to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ruinous or destructive action:
a face ravaged by grief.
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verb (used without object)

ravaged, ravaging.

to work havoc; do ruinous damage.

noun

havoc; ruinous damage:
the ravages of war.
devastating or destructive action.
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ravage

/ 藞谤忙惫瑟诲萧 /

verb

to cause extensive damage to

noun

often plural destructive action
the ravages of time

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Derived Forms

藞谤补惫补驳别谤, noun
藞谤补惫补驳别尘别苍迟, noun

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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

谤补惫路补驳别路尘别苍迟 noun
谤补惫路补驳路别谤 noun

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of ravage¹

First recorded in 1605鈥�15; from French, Middle French, equivalent to rav(ir) 鈥渢o snatch away, ravish鈥� + -age -age ( def ); ravish

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of ravage¹

C17: from French, from Old French ravir to snatch away, ravish

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Synonym Study

Ravage, devastate, lay waste all refer, in their literal application, to the wholesale destruction of a countryside by an invading army (or something comparable). Lay waste has remained the closest to the original meaning of destruction of land: The invading army laid waste the towns along the coast. But ravage and devastate are used in reference to other types of violent destruction and may also have a purely figurative application. Ravage is often used of the results of epidemics: The Black Plague ravaged 14th-century Europe; and even of the effect of disease or suffering on the human countenance: a face ravaged by despair. Devastate, in addition to its concrete meaning ( vast areas devastated by bombs ), may be used figuratively: a devastating remark.

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His early years are spent in places ravaged by the Empire鈥檚 environmental degradation, first on Cassian鈥檚 destroyed planet of origin, then on his adoptive home world of Ferrix, a rocky salvaging base.

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She said so last week while visiting Pacific Palisades, which was ravaged by fire at the start of the year.

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But any sense of stability was upended when the camp was ravaged by an intense ground and aerial assault.

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Earlier this year, Osment was among the thousands of Angelenos who lost their homes in the devastating wildfires that ravaged parts of Southern California in January.

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While the latter two were essentially vaporized by the fire, the burned shells of the others remain, steel sentinels left ravaged by the flames.

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