ravage

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cause great damage to something; to destroy.

   The forest was ravaged by the wildfire.

2. 2
   noun

   Serious damage or destruction (often used in the plural).

   The old building showed the ravages of time.

From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”).

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