Definition of ravage

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Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time..

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Grasshopper :: Grasshopper (n.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts o
Prey :: Prey (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time..
Foray :: Foray (v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.
Ravager :: Ravager (n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler..
Ravaged :: Ravaged (imp. & p. p.) of Ravag.
Sack :: Sack (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage..
Devastate :: Devastate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
Prey :: Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Rage :: Rage (n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo..
Sack :: Sack (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage..
Pungled :: Pungled (a.) Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium)..
Desolate :: Desolate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city..
Forray :: Forray (v. t.) To foray; to ravage; to pillage.
Black Death :: Black death () A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
Danegelt :: Danegelt (n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm..
Forage :: Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil..
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