ravage

See also: ravagé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹævɪdʒ/

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Verb

1. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
   • 1937, Josephus, Ralph Marcus, transl., chapter VIII, in Josephus: With an English Translation (Loeb Classical Library), volume VI (Jewish Antiquities), London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1958, →OCLC, book IX, paragraph 1, page 87:

     Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.

2. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
3. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.

Related terms

• rapid

Translations

to devastate or destroy something

• Danish: ødelægge (da)
• Dutch: verwoesten (nl), teisteren (nl)
• Finnish: tuhota (fi), hävittää (fi)
• French: ravager (fr)
• Galician: estragar (gl)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: devastare (it), distruggere (it)
• Latin: populor, vastō, dēvastō
• Persian: منهدم کردن (monhadem kardan)
• Spanish: estragar (es)
• Turkish: yıkmak (tr), tahrip etmek (tr)

to pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something

• Danish: plyndre
• Latin: populor
• Romanian: prăda (ro)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Turkish: yağmalamak (tr), yakıp yıkmak (tr)

to wreak destruction

• Danish: ødelægge (da)
• Finnish: hävittää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Noun

ravage (plural ravages)

1. Grievous damage or havoc.
   • Addison

     Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul?

2. Depredation or devastation

   the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time

Translations

grievous damage or havoc

• Danish: ødelæggelse c
• Finnish: tuho (fi), hävitys (fi)
• Romanian: ravagiu (ro) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: estrago (es) m
• Turkish: hasar (tr), yıkım (tr), tahribat (tr), tahrip (tr)

depredation or devastation

• Danish: ødelæggelse c
• Finnish: tuho (fi), hävitys (fi)
• Italian: devastazione (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ravagiu (ro) n, devastare (ro) f
• Turkish: hasar (tr), tahribat (tr), tahrip (tr), yıkım (tr)

Further reading

• “ravage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ravage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Dutch

Etymology

From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”)

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ra‧va‧ge

Noun

ravage f (plural ravages)

1. havoc, damage

Anagrams

• gevaar

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French

Etymology

From ravine (“rush of water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.vaʒ/

• audio:

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Noun

ravage m (plural ravages)

1. singular of ravages
2. (archaic) The act of laying waste.

Verb

ravage

1. first-person singular present indicative of ravager
2. third-person singular present indicative of ravager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
5. second-person singular imperative of ravager

Further reading

• “ravage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gavera