Entry Word: ravage

Function: verb

Meaning: to bring destruction to (something) through violent action <Hurricane Andrew ravaged Louisiana and Florida in 1992, causing $19 billion in damage>

Synonyms destroy, devastate, ruin, scourge

Related Words despoil, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, sack, strip; annihilate, desolate, extirpate, obliterate, smash, waste, wipe out, wreck; decimate, mow; demolish, raze; crush, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm

Near Antonyms recondition, recover, redeem, rehabilitate, restore