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ravaging

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verb

present participle of ravage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravaging
Noun
  • Antonioni’s first color film is an audiovisual tour de force, with Carlo Di Palma’s stark images conjuring a world whose external ravages reflect and reinforce the soul-sickness of modern man, masterfully embodied by Vitti’s lead performance.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
  • But social adaptation has also played a role: many people have come to rely on zero COVID to protect them from the ravages they are told have taken place elsewhere in the world.
    Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2022
Verb
  • But if enacted, some of the ideas proposed also risk destroying a nascent private sector and worsening the country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Online records show that Lamb was charged with homicide, kidnap-false imprisonment, evidence-destroying and procure for prostitute.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Now, some say artificial intelligence is ushering in a new era of creative destruction – but what exactly is being creatively destroyed, and what’s replacing it?
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Significant destruction was reported in Grinnell, Kansas, where homes were flattened, roads blocked and vehicles overturned.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Yet Jesus becomes angered by the desecration of the temple and begins tipping over the merchants' tables in the holy place while wielding a righteous whip.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 3 May 2025
  • In the first of thirteen live, three-hour shows (with Nelle sitting in the studio audience), the thirty-five-year-old Reagan, accompanied by four Black actors, dramatically reenacted Klan cross-burnings, beatings and shootings, and the desecration of synagogues.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The sense of ruination experienced by the organizers of those art spaces was something familiar to Quraiqi, who wrote on his Instagram this year that Israeli forces had destroyed his studio.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Read: The mysterious, meteoric rise of Shein In the past several years, cultural awareness has grown about the reality of the fast-fashion business model, which relies on paying factory workers shockingly low wages and takes a multifaceted approach to furthering the ruination of the planet.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Ravaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravaging. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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