Ravaging Synonyms and Antonyms

Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wasting
  2. devastating
  3. scourging
  4. desolating
Antonyms:
  1. assisting
  2. aiding
  3. helping
Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spoiling
  2. sacking
  3. wrecking
  4. wasting
  5. trampling
  6. harrying
  7. ransacking
  8. stripping
  9. ruining
  10. plundering
  11. raiding
  12. overrunning
  13. raping
  14. pillaging
  15. foraying
  16. foraging
  17. looting
  18. capturing
  19. devastating
  20. seizing
  21. pirating
  22. harrowing
  23. destroying
  24. robbing
  25. scourging
  26. violating
  27. despoiling
  28. marauding
  29. desolating
  30. demolishing
  31. impairing
  32. crushing
  33. razing
  34. impoverishing
  35. dismantling
  36. consuming
  37. prostrating
  38. extinguishing
  39. exterminating
  40. annihilating
  41. scattering
  42. smashing
  43. extirpating
  44. overwhelming
  45. overthrowing
  46. devouring
  47. disorganizing
  48. disrupting
Antonyms:
  1. rehabilitating
  2. improving
  3. building
Plundering with excessive damage and destruction
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. devastation

Ravaging Sentence Examples

  • This they avenged from generation to generation by plundering and ravaging the plains.

  • The emperor's presence was soon needed in the east, where Mesislaus, duke of the Poles, and Stephen I., king of Hungary, were ravaging the borders of Germany.

  • He failed, however, in an attack on Beauvais, and had to content himself with ravaging the country as far as Rouen, eventually retiring without having attained any useful result.

  • After ravaging the land, his own land, like a wild beast, he entered the city on the 8th of January 1570, and for the next five weeks, systematically and deliberately; day after day, massacred batches of every class of the population.

  • Israel was punished by the ravaging of the northern districts, and the king claims to have carried away the people of " the house of Omri."

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