Dictionary Entry
ravage
ravage is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
- 3noun
(usually plural) a destructive action
"the ravages of time"
"the depredations of age and disease"
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- 4verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- 5verb
make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
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