To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.
(Usually plural) a destructive action.
1 But great sportsmen have no way of defying the ravages of age.
2 The same shell caused other ravages in the ranks of the 10th.
3 We labor under difficulties enough from the ravages of the late war.
4 Yet those ravages , ironically, helped create a fertile environment for the arts.
5 The ravages his health had suffered while in the tropics became visible.
6 Preserved against the ravages of Time, since the days of King Arthur.
7 They put an end to the ravages of the Picts and Scots.
8 Evidences of the ravages of the storm were visible on all sides.
9 No part of the Roman world had escaped the ravages of war.
10 After his death the ravages of the barbarians became still more fearful.
11 These high grounds suffered much less from the ravages of the waters.
12 Nearly everyone spent a life free from the immediate ravages of crime.
13 The remaining three stanzas dwell principally on the ravages time has made.
14 The plague continued its ravages , and the city became straitened for provisions.
15 As a brutal war ravages the country, life here charges on regardless.
16 Strength of mind and body involuntarily resisted the ravages of this catastrophe.
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