ravaging

Thân thiện

The wildfire is ravaging the forest.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing severe and widespread damage or destruction; devastating. Describes something that ruins or wastes something completely.
2. Noun:
   • The act of causing excessive damage and destruction, often while plundering. Refers to the action or process of ravaging.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The ravaging effects of the war were visible for decades.
  • They struggled to recover from the ravaging storm.
• Noun:
  • The ravaging of the countryside by the invading army left nothing but ruins.
  • The documentary showed the ravaging of the ancient city.

Advanced Usage

• "A ravaging [noun]": A common structure to describe a destructive force.
  • A ravaging fire swept through the forest.
  • She fought a ravaging disease with great courage.

Variants and Related Words

• Ravage (verb): To cause severe and extensive damage to.
  • The hurricane ravaged the coastal town.
• Ravager (noun): One who or that which ravages.
  • Locusts are known as ravagers of crops.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Devastating, destructive, ruinous, catastrophic, wasting.
• Noun: Devastation, destruction, despolation, ruin.

Related Phrases

• To lay waste to: A phrase with a very similar meaning to "to ravage."
  • The conflict laid waste to the region's infrastructure.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. ruinously destructive and wasting
   • a ravaging illness

Noun

1. plundering with excessive damage and destruction

Từ đồng nghĩa

• devastation