ravage

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”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹævɪdʒ/

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ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)

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 768288966, 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.

• rapid

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

• ravage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ravage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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

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• Hyphenation: ra‧va‧ge

ravage f (plural ravages)

1. havoc, damage

• gevaar

From ravine (“rush of water”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.vaʒ/

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ravage m (plural ravages)

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

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

• “ravage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gavera