All 6 Uses of
ravage
in
Black: The Birth of Evil
- The whole business ravaged the entire population of Earth in a matter of three short weeks—†
Chpt 7 *ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- The Boston attempt fails; the one in Quebec ravages the Continental Army.†
Chpt 31ravages = destroys or damages
- Teeleh's song ravaged him with its strange chorus of terrible beauty.†
Chpt 32ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- The trees were all charred, as though an immense fire had ravaged the land.†
Chpt 34
- Everyone thinks it's a vaccine, but it mutates under intense heat and will ravage the world sometime in 2010.†
Chpt 8
- Hunter thinks a virus is about to ravage the world, he goes to the CDC, and when they grin at his preposterous claims, he goes straight to the source of the so-called virus.†
Chpt 21
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.