ravage
verb/ˈrævɪdʒ/
/ˈrævɪdʒ/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ravage | /ˈrævɪdʒ/ /ˈrævɪdʒ/ |
| he / she / it ravages | /ˈrævɪdʒɪz/ /ˈrævɪdʒɪz/ |
| past simple ravaged | /ˈrævɪdʒd/ /ˈrævɪdʒd/ |
| past participle ravaged | /ˈrævɪdʒd/ /ˈrævɪdʒd/ |
| -ing form ravaging | /ˈrævɪdʒɪŋ/ /ˈrævɪdʒɪŋ/ |
- ravage something to damage something badly synonym devastate
- a country ravaged by civil war
- a recession that has ravaged the textile industry
- The countryside has been ravaged by pollution.
- the flood-/quake-/tornado-/war-ravaged country
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRavage is used with these nouns as the subject:- storm
- country
- countryside
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French ravager, from earlier ravage, alteration of ravine ‘rush of water’.Definitions on the go
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