ravaging
English edit
Verb edit
ravaging
- present participle and gerund of ravage
Noun edit
ravaging (plural ravagings)
- The act by which something is ravaged.
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier:
- I […] had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers […]