Usage of "ravage" | TermGallery

Portuguese

assolar

Catalan

desgastar

Spanish

destrozar

To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.

lay… to waste

assolar

Catalan

saquejar

Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.

harry

saquejar

Synonyms

Examples for "harry"

harry

Examples for "harry"

Last year saw Harry increasingly focus on the issue of climate change. 
 News.com.au 

Just ask the body language expert: Harry knew what he was doing. 
 Independent.ie 

The family talk about the donors who help Harry to be healthy. 
 Radio NZ 

So in January this year, the MP Harry Cohen refined Mahon's question. 
 The Guardian 

Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket. 
 The Third Man 

(Usually plural) a destructive action.

depredation

Usage of ravage in English

Nate didn't ravage her as she'd half expected, given their combined hunger. 
 Beat of Temptation 

The French will hound on the Indians to ravage more and more. 
 French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America 

Coronavirus continues to ravage the cultural calendar for the next few months. 
 The Irish Times 

She can ravage her way through them, feasting off everything she finds. 
 The Necromancer 

Having committed this wasteful ravage, he marched in triumph out of Isabella. 
 The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) 

Then pain and despair seemed to flood and ravage his whole body. 
 The Grain of Dust: A Novel 

Perhaps this last abomination had been needed to ravage and cure him. 
 The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 

I will, therefore, that my people proceed gently, and commit no ravage. 
 Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway 

They provoke no wars, they ravage no countries, they pursue no plunder. 
 Tacitus on Germany 

Then: When they're done, they'll search for new worlds to ravage. 
 Stinger 

You may ravage-youcannot conquer; it is impossible: you cannot conquer the Americans. 
 The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc... 

The fires are the second outbreak to ravage parts of California this autumn. 
 Reuters 

If Two had known the eventual outcome, she would've let them ravage her. 
 The blood that bonds 

His intellects had evidently shared in the ravage of his frame. 
 Tales of a Traveller 

The moon in eclipse, denotes that contagion will ravage your community. 
 Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien... 

What touches the heart at Athens will ravage the whole being at Constantinople. 
 Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital... 