ravager

noun

Definition of ravagernext
1
as in desecrator

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2
as in predator

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravager
  1. predator
  2. rapist
  3. wrecker
  4. saboteur
  5. waster
  6. destroyer
Noun
  • By coincidence, most of them met through the Headwaters Chapter 642 of Minnesota Trout Unlimited, which is ironic, perhaps, considering pike are voracious predators of trout, Young says.
    Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The birds were also evaluated based on their foraging success and predator response.
    Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of predator
Noun
  • Investigators believe the attacker in 1989 was a serial rapist.
    Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But the most sinister aspect of the movie, to me, is how banal its serial rapists are—how corny and ineffectual, these cringeworthy failsons.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of rapist
Noun
  • The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Then the skit begins to outline the story of Domingo, Marcello Hernandez’s charming home wrecker who shows up to set to record straight direct from Domingo.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of wrecker
Noun
  • Yet another plot wrinkle is the role the rebellion — and one saboteur within the rebellion — might have in affecting both the emperor’s business on Arrakis and the Sisterhood’s sphere of influence.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Far more than a mere villain, Macrinus is a saboteur and opportunist in this Roman Empire epic, where those taken as slaves are forced to fight in an arena before an audience with a grim outcome: kill or be killed.
    Ronda Racha Penrice, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of saboteur
Noun
  • Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
  • California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of waster
Noun
  • The Russian missile Gerasimov was referring to took place this week in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where the U.S. Navy has three amphibious ships and destroyers that provide missile defense for Israel.
    Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • An obvious list would include Robert Cottingham’s signature landscapes of elaborate neon signage and Malcolm Morley’s souvenir postcards of cruise ships and recruiting posters of naval destroyers.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of destroyer
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