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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ravage  \Rav"age\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Ravaged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Ravaging}.]  [F.  ravager.  See  {Ravage},  n.] 
  To  lay  waste  by  force;  to  desolate  by  violence;  to  commit 
  havoc  or  devastation  upon  to  spoil;  to  plunder;  to  consume. 
 
  Already  C[ae]sar  Has  ravaged  more  than  half  the  globe. 
  --Addison. 
 
  His  lands  were  daily  ravaged,  his  cattle  driven  away 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  Syn:  To  despoil;  pillage;  plunger;  sack;  spoil;  devastate; 
  desolate;  destroy;  waste;  ruin. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ravaged 
  adj  1:  having  been  robbed  and  destroyed  by  force  and  violence;  "the 
  raped  countryside"  [syn:  {despoiled},  {pillaged},  {raped}, 
  {sacked}] 
  2:  made  uninhabitable;  "upon  this  blasted  heath"-  Shakespeare; 
  "a  wasted  landscape"  [syn:  {blasted},  {desolate},  {desolated}, 
  {devastated},  {ruined},  {wasted}]




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