verb
- to cause severe damage to something; to destroy or ruin
noun
- severe damage or destruction
Usage: often plural
Examples
- The hurricane ravaged the coastal towns.
- War had ravaged the countryside for years.
- Disease can ravage the human body.
- Time had ravaged the old building.
- The ravages of war were visible everywhere.
- The forest showed the ravages of the wildfire.
- Age brings its own ravages to the body.