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Webster 1828 Edition


Ravaging

RAV'AGING

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ppr.
Plundering; pillaging; laying waste.

Definition 2024


ravaging

ravaging

English

Verb

ravaging

  1. present participle of ravage

Noun

ravaging (plural ravagings)

  1. The act by which something is ravaged.
    • Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier
      I [] had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers []