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ravage 音标拼音: [r'ævɪdʒ] n. 破坏,蹂躏
vt.
vi. 毁坏,破坏,掠夺 破坏,蹂躏毁坏,破坏,掠夺 ravage n 1: ( usually plural) a destructive action; " the ravages of time"; " the depredations of age and disease" [ synonym: { ravage}, { depredation}] v 1: make a pillaging or destructive raid on ( a place), as in wartimes [ synonym: { harry}, { ravage}] 2: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; " The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [ synonym: { lay waste to}, { waste}, { devastate}, { desolate}, { ravage}, { scourge}] Ravage \ Rav" age\ ( r[ a^] v"[ asl] j; 48), n. [ F., fr. ( assumed) L. rapagium, rapaticum, fr. rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See { Rapacious}, { Ravish}.] Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. [ 1913 Webster] Would one think ' t were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul? -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin. [ 1913 Webster]
Ravage \ Rav" age\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Ravaged} ( r[ a^] v"[ asl] jd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Ravaging} ( r[ a^] v"[ asl]* j[ i^] ng).] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] Already Caesar Has ravaged more than half the globe. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin. [ 1913 Webster] 192 Moby Thesaurus words for " ravage": abuse, adulterate, alloy, banditry, beset, betray, betrayal, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, bring to ruin, canker, carnage, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, consume, consumption, contaminate, corrupt, crawl with, creep with, criminal assault, crush, damage, damn, damnation, deal destruction, debase, debauch, debauchment, deceive, decimate, decimation, defile, defilement, defloration, deflower, deflowering, degenerate, degrade, demolish, demolition, denature, deprave, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devalue, devastate, devastation, devour, direption, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, distort, encroach, engorge, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, force, freeboot, freebooting, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, harry, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incinerate, infect, infest, infestation, invade, invasion, lay in ruins, lay waste, lead astray, loot, looting, lousiness, maraud, marauding, mislead, misuse, overpower, overrun, overrunning, overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, overthrow, overwhelm, perdition, pervert, pillage, pillaging, plague, plunder, plundering, poison, pollute, prey on, priapism, prostitute, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravagement, ravages, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, raze, razzia, reive, reiving, rifle, rifling, rob, ruin, ruinate, ruination, sack, sacking, scourge, seduce, seducement, seduction, sexual assault, shambles, shipwreck, slaughter, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, strip, sully, swallow up, swarm, swarm with, swarming, sweep, taint, teeming, throw into disorder, trespass, twist, ulcerate, undoing, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalism, vandalize, vaporize, violate, violation, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck, wrecking
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