ravager

noun

1
as in demolisher

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2
as in predator

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Recent Examples of ravager Everyone cosplays as a wasteland ravager, depraved, ugly, and dirty, talking about cannibalism and the brutality of all sorts. — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravager
  1. wrecker
  2. predator
  3. saboteur
  4. rapist
  5. waster
  6. robber
  7. destroyer
  8. ruiner
Noun
  • If that wasn’t enough, Donald will be next to Myles Garrett, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and a game-wrecker in his own right, on a defensive line made straight out of a video game.
    — Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • No one is as refined as the Ohio State star, but Coleman’s potential as a 6-foot-3, 210-pound, do-everything game-wrecker is tantalizing.
    — Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of wrecker
Noun
  • His work has helped people learn that the apex predators are around humans more often than once thought.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Rattlesnakes fill an important niche in the area’s ecosystem by targeting prey that other predators cannot access.
    — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of predator
Noun
  • That war ended in a humiliating defeat by an enemy regarded as much weaker, and many tsarist officials blamed the outcome on Japanese spies and saboteurs.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Private corporations have long worked with the federal government to help disrupt cybercriminals, but largely as contractors fulfilling a support role, not digital saboteurs handed a target.
    — Henry Larson, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of saboteur
Noun
  • Andrew Tate took the witness stand Thursday afternoon and denied being a rapist or a human trafficker.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Investigators in Paulding County are searching for more possible victims of a man authorities are calling a serial rapist.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of rapist
Noun
  • The form asks for the date and time of the watering, along with the waster’s address.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
  • The state Department of Environmental Protection is responding and will assist in the safe disposal of waster materials generated during the cleanup Morrisey said.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 22 Apr. 2026
Definition of waster
Noun
  • Tubi Inside Man (2006) Spike Lee’s labyrinthine thriller stars Denzel Washington as a hostage negotiator and Clive Owen as a bank robber holding customers hostage in a tony Manhattan branch.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Preliminary explorations indicate these burials were looted in antiquity; passages linking them are thought to have been made by ancient robbers moving between the tombs.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of robber
Noun
  • Lockheed Martin installed it aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble, making the vessel the first US destroyer equipped with a high-energy laser.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Fenix, at one point countered an avalanche Mexican destroyer attempt, stunning Penta and turning it around into a Mexican muscle buster.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of destroyer
Noun
  • Thank goodness, too, because that would have been a day-ruiner.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • McKellen has mentioned the robe-ruiner before.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of ruiner

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