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RAVAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ravaging mean? 

RAVAGING (noun)
  The noun RAVAGING has 1 sense:

1. plundering with excessive damage and destructionplay

  Familiarity information: RAVAGING used as a noun is very rare.


RAVAGING (adjective)
  The adjective RAVAGING has 1 sense:

1. ruinously destructive and wastingplay

  Familiarity information: RAVAGING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAVAGING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plundering with excessive damage and destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

devastation; ravaging

Hypernyms ("ravaging" is a kind of...):

pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)

Derivation:

ravage (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly)


RAVAGING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Ruinously destructive and wasting

Context example:

a ravaging illness

Similar:

destructive (causing destruction or much damage)


 Context examples 


In a forest of his country lived two giants, who caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And north we travelled with it, ravaging and destroying, flinging the naked carcasses to the shark and salting down the skins so that they might later adorn the fair shoulders of the women of the cities.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Smoke particles from the fires ravaging Australia have traveled more than 12,000 km, crossed an ocean and a mountain range and arrived in South America, meteorological institutions confirmed, after smoke was detected in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)



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