All 4 Uses of
ravage
in
Red: The Heroic Rescue
- Deliver your sons from the evil that ravages what is sacred.†
Chpt 9 *ravages = destroys or damages
- But she'd never seen such a ravaging animal, not one that was so contagious, so systemic, and so innocuous before reaching maturity and consuming its host like so many piranha.†
Chpt 11ravaging = destroying or damaging
- From thirty thousand feet up, the idea that a virus was ravaging the earth below seemed preposterous.†
Chpt 13
- And yet they would likely defile the lakes, ravage the forests, and plant their desert wheat.†
Chpt 3
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.