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ravaged

ravaged is the simple past and past participle of ravage.

Meaning of ravage

Verb

ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)

  1. (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
    • Already Cæſar
      Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees
      Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword:
      Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting
      To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1
  2. (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
  3. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
    Synonyms:
    rack
  4. (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
    Synonyms:
    hit, plough, smash, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague
  5. (slang) To rape.
    • And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women.1953, Ian Fleming, “Rouge et Noir”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 48

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Words formed from ravaged

Questions about ravaged

What is ravaged the simple past and past participle of?
Ravaged is the simple past and past participle of ravage.

Words near ravaged in the dictionary

  1. rav
  2. rava
  3. Rava-Ruska
  4. ravage
  5. ravageable
  6. ravaged
  7. ravagement
  8. ravagements
  9. ravager
  10. ravagers
  11. ravages

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