Both Uses of
ravage
in
Washington Square
- The Doctor had been rather disappointed at not finding his compact and comfortable little hostess surrounded in a more visible degree by the ravages of Morris Townsend's immorality; but he had said to himself that this was not because the young man had spared her, but because she had contrived to plaster up her wounds.†
Chpt 14
- To her own consciousness, the flowery fields of her reason had rarely been ravaged by a hostile force.†
Chpt 25 *
Definition:
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(ravage) to destroy or damage; or damaging effects