intransitive verb. To bring heavy destruction on; devastate.

intransitive verb. To pillage; sack.

intransitive verb. To wreak destruction.

noun. The act or practice of pillaging or destroying.

noun. undefined

noun. Destruction, damage, or harm.

noun. Destructive or harmful effects.

noun. Desolation or destruction wrought by the violent action of men or beasts, or by physical or moral causes; devastation; havoc; waste; ruin: as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an invading army; the ravages of passion or grief.

noun. Synonyms Pillage, plunder, spoliation, despoilment. These words all apply not to the treatment of people directly, but to the destruction or appropriation of property.

To desolate violently; lay waste, as by force, storm, etc.; commit havoc on; devastate; pillage; despoil.

Synonyms To plunder, waste. See the noun.

noun. Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste

transitive verb. To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

verb. To devastate or destroy something

verb. To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something

verb. To wreak destruction

noun. Grievous damage or havoc

noun. Depredation or devastation

verb. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

verb. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

noun. (usually plural) a destructive action

""Genocide was the most sobering reality of all," the department said in the 2006 "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," noting that mass killings continued to "ravage" Darfur nearly 60 years after the world vowed "Never again!" following the Holocaust."

rapid  

demolition  destroy  destruction  ruin  wipeout  

savage  

atrocity  calamity  carnage  contagion  depredation  

abuse  adulterate  alloy  banditry  beset  

ravaged  ravages  ravaging