Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
ravage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective ruinously destructive and wasting
- noun plundering with excessive damage and destruction
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Examples
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Spanish-American word ravaging our coasts and carrying off the pride of the youth has to answer for many such bridal parties, whose tours have been followed with pins and colored pencils and eyes more eager than those of mothers-in-law.
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Unless you have been hiding under a rock, a well insulated sound proof rock, then you probably know about the swine flu H1N1 that is "ravaging" the world right now.
Pornpig Porn Party 2009
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Unless you have been hiding under a rock, a well insulated sound proof rock, then you probably know about the swine flu H1N1 that is "ravaging" the world right now.
Pornpig Porn Party 2009
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Yet even the conservative AR4 arguably supports the term by considering, however soberly, probably consequences that could reasonably be construed as involving the "ravaging" of this or that.
RealClimate 2009
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You can help stop this kind of ravaging of people's lives and environment - put your money into your own community, instead of giving it to multinational banks which invest it in ways you would never dream of supporting.
Indybay newswire 2009
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Not "ravaging" him would have amounted to journalistic malpractice.
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Hurricane Ike is currently "ravaging" South Texas with his
Blogrunner 2008
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'ravaging' communities without any sense of irony of what their movement did to communities on this island.
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Hurricane Ike is currently "ravaging" South Texas with his "...
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Hurricane Ike is currently "ravaging" South Texas with his "...
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