ravage
See also: ravagé
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)
- (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:
- (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to devastate or destroy something
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to pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something
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NounEdit
ravage (plural ravages)
- Grievous damage or havoc.
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 2]:
- Depredation or devastation
- the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time
TranslationsEdit
grievous damage or havoc
depredation or devastation
Further readingEdit
- ravage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ravage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ravage f (plural ravages)
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ravine (“rush of water”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ravage m (plural ravages)
- singular of ravages
- (archaic) The act of laying waste.
VerbEdit
ravage
- first-person singular present indicative of ravager
- third-person singular present indicative of ravager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
- second-person singular imperative of ravager
Further readingEdit
- “ravage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).