Crossword clues for ravaging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged (r[a^]v"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging (r[a^]v"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. ravager. See Ravage, n.] To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Already C[ae]sar
Has ravaged more than half the globe.
--Addison.
His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is ravaged. vb. (present participle of ravage English)
WordNet
adj. ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"
n. plundering with excessive damage and destruction [syn: devastation]
Usage examples of "ravaging".
They made descents in small bodies from their ships, or rather boats, and ravaging the coasts, returned with the booty to their families, whom they could not conveniently carry along with them in those hazardous enterprises.
After mutually ravaging the open country, and taking a few insignificant castles, the two kings concluded a peace at Louviers, and made an exchange of some territories with each other.
Was he even here, or were they wasting time and effort while he was off ravaging their defenseless homes?
He therefore contented himself with ravaging the country by detachments: he sent M.
James plugged her vagina with a tunnel stretching erection, ravaging her with unconcerned brutality and finally pumping endless spurts of semen into her womb.
And then Aztor spoke to her, his cruel merciless and obviously disguised voice ravaging her ears in a flat emotionless whisper.
He was not going to waste any time over ravaging the girls, he had unlimited time for that in the future.
The talk was of local matters, the fear of famine owing to the ravaging of the Scots and what could or should be done to ease it and when, if ever, recompense could be expected for the outlay.
But the ravaging of Southwark was the signal, given on the very eve before Matilda was to be crowned, while a feast was being readied to celebrate the event.
But Romulus with his army met them ravaging the country in straggling parties, and by a slight engagement convinces them, that resentment without strength is of no avail.
The other consul, having marched against the Volsci, in order that he too might not waste time, challenged the enemy to pitch their camp nigh to his, and to risk an engagement by ravaging their lands.
The same year the legions were led out by the consul Furius against the Volscians, who were ravaging the country of the Hernicians, and finding no enemy there, they took Ferentinum, whither a great multitude of the Volscians had betaken themselves.
Lugnasadh found us: plague ravaging the people and the Black Boar ruining all the land.
Truly, the evil ravaging the land flows from your iniquity alone, and from the wickedness of your reign.
She turned her face aside, but his hard fingers slipped under her jaw to hold her still while his mouth met hers, not ravaging and punishing as she had feared, but softly in a gentle caress.