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to bring destruction to (something) through violent action
the hurricane ravaged the state and caused billions of dollars worth of damage
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Recent Examples of ravaging
Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
The question of whether or not Uniqlo is fast fashion or sustainable fashion or ethical fashion has perhaps become irrelevant in a world in which fashion—no modifier needed—is increasingly culpable for the ravaging of the planet.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Sean Paul is doing his part to help minimize and repair the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa, which is currently ravaging his homeland of Jamaica.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
With William, the Schitt's Creek star reflected on how quickly the traumatic loss happened, as the southern California winds were blowing over 100 miles per hour amid the ravaging fires.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
In the late seventies, heroin began ravaging Dublin’s inner-city projects.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Hatred, spread through rhetoric, populism and the internet, acts like a virus, ravaging any healthy social organism and bringing, death, destruction and pain.
—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Three weeks later, the 41-year-old was forced to evacuate her home with her newborn due to the devastating fires ravaging Los Angeles.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
But on an evening back in July, inordinate rainfall led to unrelenting floodwaters ravaging the lower level of Pledger’s home.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
France commenced the latest calls to recognize a Palestinian state when President Emmanuel Macron announced his decision last month, citing the starvation ravaging Gaza’s population.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
But Haynes reminds her church flock to respond with love to the ravaging of their inclusive gesture.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
The question of whether or not Uniqlo is fast fashion or sustainable fashion or ethical fashion has perhaps become irrelevant in a world in which fashion—no modifier needed—is increasingly culpable for the ravaging of the planet.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
Hurricane Melissa, currently ravaging the Caribbean, is a perfect example of why climate adaptation finance is so badly needed.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Sean Paul is doing his part to help minimize and repair the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa, which is currently ravaging his homeland of Jamaica.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
With William, the Schitt's Creek star reflected on how quickly the traumatic loss happened, as the southern California winds were blowing over 100 miles per hour amid the ravaging fires.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
In the late seventies, heroin began ravaging Dublin’s inner-city projects.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Hatred, spread through rhetoric, populism and the internet, acts like a virus, ravaging any healthy social organism and bringing, death, destruction and pain.
—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Three weeks later, the 41-year-old was forced to evacuate her home with her newborn due to the devastating fires ravaging Los Angeles.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
But on an evening back in July, inordinate rainfall led to unrelenting floodwaters ravaging the lower level of Pledger’s home.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
France commenced the latest calls to recognize a Palestinian state when President Emmanuel Macron announced his decision last month, citing the starvation ravaging Gaza’s population.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravaging
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And candidates who stoked fear in voters — with the threat of towering multi-family complexes destroying their communities or costly local infrastructure projects driving up taxes — lost by clear margins.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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Derek Lopez, 27, was fired from his role at the university after he was caught on camera destroying a Turning Point display.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The coaches also decided King’s wrecking-ball approach was effective.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The addresses listed in the wrecking permits border the east of the truck plant where Ford makes its iconic Super Duty trucks, Expedition SUVs and luxury Lincoln Navigators.—
Olivia Evans,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Last year’s devastating drought in the Amazon Basin was made 30 times more likely by climate change, according to a report from World Weather Attribution, a network of scientists that analyze extreme weather events.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Earlier this year, California’s devastating Eaton Fire destroyed much of Altadena, a diverse, creative community just north of Pasadena.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
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There are two questions Gazans have usually asked each other since the start of this campaign of unrelenting and systematic destruction, starvation, displacement and mass killing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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But catastrophes also tend to reveal deficits in society, and the patterns of destruction and abandonment that followed the fire—which have roots in America’s past and its present—tell us something about the country’s future, too.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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In the filing, Omni Hotels outlined a five-year timeframe that would get the site fully designed, permitted and prepared for construction, noting construction would not start until at least five years after the demolishing of the buildings on site.—
Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Both men are charged with two counts of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, unlawful removal of a dead body and unlawful desecration of a human corpse, according to court records.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Complete and utter desecration of a national monument.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Wedding fundraising pages are not invoices that require payment under threat of credit ruination.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
19 Oct. 2025
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To call it a Life Ruiner is not to say that a life of letters is necessarily ruination—but rather, to identify it as the book . . .—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Ravaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravaging. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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