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Definition
to destroy or damage; or damaging effects
- 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.2.16 (90% in)
- The unravaged state was a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.3.17 (2% in)
- She looked like a dead, old woman with her ravaged face and her dark hair snarled and tangled across it.3.24 (5% in)
- 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.3.28 (94% in)
There are no more uses of "ravage" in Gone with the Wind.
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