ravaging 1 of 2

noun

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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
  • The main question left to answer is who should pay to stave off the worst of climate change’s ravages.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Our clean energy future, this global drive to save humanity from the ever-worsening ravages of global warming, depends on critical metals.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Verb
  • Federal agencies are prohibited from destroying or negatively changing critical habitat.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The designation would also prohibit federal agencies from destroying or modifying that habitat.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of destroying
Noun
  • Looting and destruction Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act after a generation of lobbying by educators and scientists who wanted to protect sites from commercial artifact looting and haphazard collecting by individuals.
    Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Among others, the Hazara and Tajik minorities are significantly affected, raising the question of whether the destruction is in part linked to ethnicity.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of destruction
Noun
  • Artifact theft and desecration are surprisingly common in national parks.
    Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Another count, desecration of a human corpse, was dismissed.
    KC Baker, People.com, 17 Oct. 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
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