The Only Use of
ravage
in
The Great Gatsby
- And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.†
p. 39.7ravages = destroys or damages
Definitions:
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(1)
(ravage) to destroy or damage; or damaging effects
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, ravage can reference pillaging or plundering as is done by an invading army that takes things of value and destroys what is left.