Sample Sentences for
ravage
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    They were used to the ravages of war, and knew that the wind could not deliver them a fatal blow.  (source)
    ravages = damages
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    She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love.  (source)
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    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.  (source)
    ravaged = destroyed or damaged
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    But he's not a sixty-seven-year-old man, ravaged by time and illness.†  (source)
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    Despite the ravages of conquest, this part of Oakwald Forest remained untouched.†  (source)
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    She rushed over to me, concern ravaging her tone.†  (source)
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    You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy.†  (source)
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    so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unravaged means not and reverses the meaning of ravaged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "The truly guilty," said Milady, "is the ravager of England, the persecutor of true believers, the base ravisher of the honor of so many women—he who, to satisfy a caprice of his corrupt heart, is about to make England shed so much blood, who protects the Protestants today and will betray them tomorrow—"†  (source)
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    Physically, almost every one of them was ravaged.†  (source)
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    He knows firsthand the ravages of neglect and substandard living conditions.†  (source)
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    After ravaging the lawn for about an hour, one of us had the presence of mind to ask him, "Whose house is this?"†  (source)
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    If Percy attacked the giant, the hydra would ravage the city.†  (source)
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