ravages
See also: ravagés
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ravages
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ravages pl (plural only)
- Harsh damage.
- The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.
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harsh damages
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ravages
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ravage
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ravages
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ravages m pl (plural only)
- damages, destruction caused by man or nature
- deteriorations caused by natural processes such as time or disease
- (archaic) great damages caused by man through violence; pillage or sacking
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Further reading edit
- “ravages”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.