ravage
[verb]
Synonyms:
- destroy, demolish, despoil, devastate, lay waste, ransack, ruin, spoil
[noun]
Synonyms:
- ravages: damage, destruction, devastation, havoc, ruin, ruination, spoliation

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Contrasted words: build, improve, rehabilitate
Related Idioms: lay in ruins, lay waste
Related Words: demolish, destroy, raze, loot, plunder, ransack, rob, ruin, wreck, encroach, invade, trespass, crush, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm

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rav‧age /ˈrævɪdʒ/ verb [transitive usually passive]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: ravager, from ravage 'destruction', from ravir; ⇒ ravish]
to damage something very badly:
a country ravaged by civil war
His health was gradually ravaged by drink and drugs.

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