All 4 Uses of
ravage
in
Gone with the Wind
- Food was scanty, one blanket for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pest-house.†
Chpt 2.16 *ravages = destroys or damages
- The unravaged state was a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.†
Chpt 3.17unravaged = 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.
- She looked like a dead, old woman with her ravaged face and her dark hair snarled and tangled across it.†
Chpt 3.24ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- It did not seem possible that war had swept over them twice, that they were living in a ravaged country, close to the border of starvation, when this old sweet Christmas hymn was being sung.†
Chpt 3.28
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.