ravage

«ravage» in Mova's school dictionary: To damage or destroy something badly: «The storm ravaged… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (ravage, ravages, ravaged, ravaging); noun (the ravages of — plural)

meaning for a pupil

1) To damage or destroy something badly: «The storm ravaged the coast.» tree →

2) (the ravages of) The very bad effects of something over time: «the ravages of war», «the ravages of time». tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons wars, fires, floods, diseases and pests ravage lands; in stories it shows terrible destruction. Phrases: «ravaged by war», «ravaged by fire», «the ravages of time».

examples

• Bushfires ravaged huge areas of Australia. tree →
• The town was ravaged by war. tree →
• Locusts ravaged the farmers' crops. tree →
• The old castle shows the ravages of time. tree →
• A terrible disease ravaged Europe in the 1300s. tree →
• The hurricane ravaged the islands. tree →
• Passing through the woody district of Crommyon Theseus next slew a wild and dangerous sow which had long ravaged the country. tree →

note

The noun is almost always plural: «the ravages of». Do not confuse «ravage» (destroy) with «ravish» or «ravenous» (very hungry). Stress: RAV-ij.

In the corpora

• The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ravage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.