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Flames ravaged their home.ravaged = destroyed or badly damaged
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The old home had not been cared for and showed the ravages of time.ravages = damaging effects
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The African country was ravaged by AIDS.ravaged = damaged
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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)ravaged = destroyed or damaged
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But with Mishka, here were not simply the ravages of time.† (source)ravages = destroys or damages
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You came here because you wanted to save poor little Margo from her troubled little self, so that I would be oh-so-thankful to my knight in shining armor that I would strip my clothes off and beg you to ravage my body.† (source)
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We went to war when Lannister armies were ravaging the riverlands, and Ned was a prisoner, falsely accused of treason.† (source)ravaging = destroying or damaging
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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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so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!† (source)unravaged = not destroyed or damagedstandard 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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Physically, almost every one of them was ravaged.† (source)ravaged = destroyed or damaged
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Each season she grew more shrunken and dilapidated, surrendering her sturdy hull and deck to the ravages of woodworms, barnacles, and weather.† (source)ravages = destroys or damages
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What springs into my mind are those news reports about tornadoes or fires, how they'll ravage one house but leave the one next door intact.† (source)
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The baboon ravaging Canary Wharf looked like he would eat anything, not just foods ending with an —o, and would have no difficulty ripping me limb from limb.† (source)ravaging = destroying or damaging
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