RAVAGE (2)

ravage (2). Ravage, n. spoil, plunder, waste, ruin, havoc

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Rav″age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged (–ā̍jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging (–ā̍‐jĭng).] [[F. ravager. See Ravage, n.]] To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. Already Cæsar Has ravaged more than half the globe. Addison. His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. Macaulay. Syn. — To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.