All 4 Uses
ravage
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Gone with the Wind
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- 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) 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.