Ravage Synonyms and Antonyms

răvĭj
To destroy completely as or as if by conquering
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. desolate
  2. devastate
  3. waste
  4. lay waste to
  5. scourge
Antonyms:
  1. help
  2. protect
  3. aid
  4. assist
To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. plunder
  2. despoil
  3. pillage
  4. sack
  5. devastate
  6. harry
  7. loot
  8. ransack
  9. damage
  10. spoil
  11. spoliate
  12. annihilate
  13. demolish
  14. destroy
  15. desolate
  16. overrun
  17. consume
  18. havoc
  19. crush
  20. waste
  21. wreck
  22. rape
  23. strip
  24. forage
  25. foray
  26. ruin
  27. trample
  28. raid
  29. lay-waste
  30. devastation
  31. depredate
  32. disrupt
  33. disorganize
  34. overthrow
  35. overwhelm
  36. break up
  37. pull down
  38. smash
  39. shatter
  40. scatter
  41. batter down
  42. exterminate
  43. extinguish
  44. prostrate
  45. trample down
  46. dismantle
  47. stamp out
  48. denudate
  49. lay in ruins
  50. sweep-away
  51. depauperate
  52. raze
  53. deracinate
  54. impair
  55. maraud
  56. wrest
  57. prey
  58. devour
  59. extirpate
  60. violate
  61. rob
  62. pirate
  63. seize
  64. impoverish
  65. capture
  66. gut
  67. scourge
  68. harrow
Antonyms:
  1. build
  2. improve
  3. rehabilitate

Words Related to Ravage

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Ravage Sentence Examples

  • Though feeding largely on worms and insects they ravage gardens and fields, on which account they are detested by the colonists.

  • From thence in the spring of 452 he again set forth to ravage or to conquer Italy.

  • In November Jerome sailed in a squadron commanded by Admiral Willaumez, which was to ravage the West Indies; but it was scattered by a storm.

  • Isaac's only military expedition was against the Hungarians and Petchenegs, who began to ravage the northern frontiers in 1059.

  • Meanwhile the Turkish governors on the Bulgarian bank never ceased to ravage the country, and again it seemed as if Walachia must share the fate of the Balkan States and succumb to the direct government of the Ottoman.

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