Associations to the word «Ravage»
Wiktionary
RAVAGE, verb. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
RAVAGE, verb. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
RAVAGE, verb. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
RAVAGE, noun. Grievous damage or havoc.
RAVAGE, noun. Depredation or devastation
Dictionary definition
RAVAGE, noun. (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease".
RAVAGE, verb. Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.
RAVAGE, verb. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.