noun
Meaning 1
Grievous damage or havoc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ravage
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/
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noun
Meaning 2
Depredation or devastation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the ravages of fire or tempest
- the ravages of an army
- the ravages of time
- the ravage of a lion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: annihilate, obliterate, ravel, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: despoil, rape, ransack, spoliate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To wreak destruction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rack
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hit, plough, smash, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To rape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: force, outrage, ravish, abuse, constuprate, defile, defoul, dishonour, misuse, oppress, pollute, rape, ravage, r-word, scotch, turn out, violate, viole, vitiate, grape
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
(usually plural) a destructive action
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the ravages of time
- the depredations of age and disease
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: depredation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destruction, demolition, wipeout
verb
Meaning 9
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, scourge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destroy, ruin
Narrower terms: ruin
verb
Meaning 10
make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: harry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destroy, ruin
History
Etymology
From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”).
Across languages
Translations
88 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: разруха (razruha) — grievous damage or havoc
- Danish: ødelæggelse — grievous damage or havoc
- Finnish: tuho — grievous damage or havoc
- Finnish: hävitys — grievous damage or havoc
- Occitan: ravatge — grievous damage or havoc
- Portuguese: estrago — grievous damage or havoc
- Romanian: ravagiu — grievous damage or havoc
- Spanish: estrago — grievous damage or havoc
- Turkish: hasar — grievous damage or havoc
- Turkish: yıkım — grievous damage or havoc
- Turkish: tahribat — grievous damage or havoc
- Turkish: tahrip — grievous damage or havoc
- Bulgarian: опустошение (opustošenie) — depredation or devastation
- Danish: ødelæggelse — depredation or devastation
- Finnish: tuho — depredation or devastation
- Finnish: hävitys — depredation or devastation
- German: Verwüstung — depredation or devastation
- Italian: devastazione — depredation or devastation
- Portuguese: devastação — depredation or devastation
- Romanian: ravagiu — depredation or devastation
- Romanian: devastare — depredation or devastation
- Turkish: hasar — depredation or devastation
- Turkish: tahribat — depredation or devastation
- Turkish: tahrip — depredation or devastation
- Turkish: yıkım — depredation or devastation
- Arabic: اِجْتَاحَ (ijtāḥa) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Arabic: خَرَبَ (ḵaraba) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Azerbaijani: dağıtmaq — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Azerbaijani: xaraba qoymaq — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Azerbaijani: viran etmək — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Azerbaijani: yixmaq — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Bulgarian: разрушавам (razrušavam) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Czech: pustošit — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Czech: zpustošit — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Czech: zničit — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Danish: ødelægge — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Dutch: verwoesten — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Dutch: teisteren — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Finnish: tuhota — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Finnish: hävittää — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- French: ravager — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Galician: estragar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- German: verwüsten — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- German: zerstören — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ancient Greek: λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Italian: devastare — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Italian: distruggere — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Latin: populor — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Latin: vastō — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Latin: dēvastō — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Macedonian: ру́ши (rúši) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Macedonian: ра́зруши (rázruši) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Māori: anea — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Persian: منهدم کردن (monhadem kardan) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Polish: dewastować — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Polish: niszczyć — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Polish: pustoszyć — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Portuguese: devastar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Russian: опустоша́ть (opustošátʹ) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Spanish: estragar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Spanish: arrasar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Spanish: asolar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Spanish: desfigurar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Spanish: devastar — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Swedish: härja — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Swedish: ödelägga — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Turkish: yıkmak — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Turkish: tahrip etmek — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: спусто́шувати (spustóšuvaty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: спусто́шити (spustóšyty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: розоря́ти (rozorjáty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: розори́ти (rozorýty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: плюндрува́ти (pljundruváty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: сплюндрува́ти (spljundruváty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Ukrainian: пусто́шити (pustóšyty) — to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something
- Bulgarian: опустошавам (opustošavam) — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Czech: vyplenit — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Czech: plenit — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Danish: plyndre — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Latin: populor — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Macedonian: пу́стоши (pústoši) — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Portuguese: saquear — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Romanian: prăda — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Turkish: yağmalamak — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Turkish: yakıp yıkmak — to pillage or plunder destructively
- Danish: ødelægge — to wreak destruction
- Finnish: hävittää — to wreak destruction
- Portuguese: arruinar — to wreak destruction