noun
- severe and extensive damage or destruction
Usage: usually plural
verb
- to cause severe damage to something
Usage: third person singular present
Examples
- The ravages of war left the city in ruins.
- Time had not spared the old mansion from the ravages of weather.
- The hurricane ravages coastal communities every few years.
- Disease ravages the population when medical care is unavailable.
- The ravages of age were visible on his weathered face.
- Drought ravages crops across the entire region.
- She studied the ravages of pollution on marine life.