ravage
noun
- 1
(usually plural) a destructive action
the ravages of time
the depredations of age and disease
verb
- 1
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
- 2
make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
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