ravage

Meaning

Verb

1. To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
2. To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
3. To wreak destruction.
4. (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
5. (slang) To rape.

Noun

1. Grievous damage or havoc.
2. Depredation or devastation.

Synonyms

devastate

destroy

ruin

waste

plunder

pillage

destruction

harry

sack

lay waste

despoil

spoil

wreck

devastation

demolish

lay waste to

desolate

ransack

depredation

kill

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scourge

loot

depopulate

desolation

havoc

deflower

depredate

rack

raid

erase

mar

disaster

squander

ravaging

raze

destruct

murder

obliterate

obliteration

oppress

override

overrule

overrun

pulverize

rape

rase

rob

robbery

ruination

rummage

scatter

shipwreck

smash

strip

trample down

tread down

trouble

tyrannize

undoing

unmake

wipe out

wrack

wreckage

zap

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harrass

make a mess of

make empty

turn upside down

scatter about

abuse

mess about with

make in confusion

over-run

do devastate

abolish

lay waste

annoy

black out

blight

bobble

bollix

bollocks

calamity

catastrophe

consume

damage

depopulation

dereliction

desecrate

destroying

devour

disrupt

do away with

domineer

doomsday

efface

eradicate

exterminate

extinguish

fall

forage

foray

fritter

go

greed

ill-use

knock out

maltreat

maraud

min

mishandle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”).