ravaging

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Verb[edit]

ravaging

  1. present participle and gerund of ravage

Noun[edit]

ravaging (plural ravagings)

  1. The act by which something is ravaged.
    • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier:
      I […] had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers […]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ravaging&oldid=75899021"