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ravaging

 
Adjective ravaging has 1 sense
  1. ravaging - ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"
    Antonym:
    constructive (indirect, via destructive)
Noun ravaging has 1 sense
  1. ravaging, devastation - plundering with excessive damage and destruction
    --1 is a kind of plundering, pillage, pillaging
    Derived form: verb ravage2
Verb ravage has 2 senses
  1. harry, ravage - make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
    --1 is one way to destroy, ruin
    Derived form: noun ravage1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
    --2 is one way to destroy, ruin
    Derived forms: noun ravage1, noun ravaging1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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