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as in ravage

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ravaging

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verb

present participle of ravage
as in destroying
to bring destruction to (something) through violent action the hurricane ravaged the state and caused billions of dollars worth of damage

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  1. ravage
  2. destroying
  3. destruction
  4. desecration
  5. ruination
Noun
  • Millions of California residents have been forced to abandon their homes as wildfires ravage Los Angeles County.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There were a lot of these old-timers at nostalgia-drag events—mobility impaired, sun-weathered to the point of absolute ravage, sometimes towing an oxygen tank.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of ravage
Verb
  • The most pressing problem concerns European Union rules on carbon dioxide emissions, with bottom-line-destroying fines for the bigger failures.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • At this point, most of the surveys are showing roughly seventy per cent of Israelis would prefer a hostage deal to whatever the alternative is, like destroying Hamas by any means.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of destroying
Noun
  • Teddy and Andy Leonard, owners of the Reel Inn, confirmed the destruction of their restaurant on Instagram, and stated that all of their restaurant staff were safe.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • People couldn't believe the destruction that happened in a manner of minutes.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of destruction
Noun
  • Robbed of the event’s usual flair, the competitors instead put on a display of oafish masculinity, eating Combos on the ice and getting overly handsy with a female partner, among other desecrations of the sport.
    Dan Reilly, Vulture, 30 July 2024
  • Jared Krysiak pleaded guilty to a charge of desecration of human remains in connection with brutal slaying of Kerry Rollason, according to a statement released by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of desecration
Noun
  • The aftershocks of the Vietnam War and the ruination of family legacy also came into play in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Athens used its financial power to abuse its allies and in doing so precipitated its own ruination.
    Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2020
Definition of ruination
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