Definition for Ravaging:

• ruinously destructive and wasting; " a ravaging illness"

Synonyms for Ravaging:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • devastation.
  •depredation (noun)
  • spoliation.
  •destruction (noun)
  • vandalism,
  • ruination,
  • havoc.

• v.

  •damaging (verb)
  • Marring,
  • Depredating,
  • Despoiling,
  • wasting,
  • vandalizing,
  • ruining,
  • wrecking,
  • rending,
  • laying waste,
  • ransacking,
  • wreaking havoc,
  • damaging,
  • spoiling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • marauding.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Infesting,
  • foray,
  • foraying,
  • corrupting,
  • disastrous,
  • scathing,
  • Chivying,
  • Macerating,
  • infringe,
  • provoking,
  • stripping,
  • crashing,
  • untie,
  • consuming,
  • annul,
  • waste,
  • Liquidating,
  • damage,
  • Subversionary,
  • nihilistic,
  • rape,
  • demolishing,
  • internecine,
  • consume,
  • wreckage,
  • ravage,
  • ruinous,
  • suicidal,
  • deadly,
  • sacking,
  • razing,
  • devastating,
  • demolish,
  • loosen,
  • despoilment,
  • breakage,
  • impair,
  • despair,
  • fatal,
  • Mutilating,
  • transgress,
  • baneful,
  • frustrate,
  • obliteration,
  • destructive,
  • Abandoning,
  • Depopulating,
  • impinge,
  • spoilation,
  • defeat,
  • smashing,
  • abolish,
  • Harming,
  • Plaguing,
  • violate,
  • despoliation,
  • counteract,
  • undo,
  • banditry,
  • lossing,
  • cataclysmic,
  • encroach,
  • downfall,
  • withering,
  • Desolating,
  • death,
  • collapse,
  • sack,
  • looting,
  • Outraging,
  • Gutting,
  • ravishment,
  • destroy,
  • Direption,
  • plunderous,
  • foraging,
  • Deserting,
  • bane,
  • predacious,
  • self-destructive,
  • devastate,
  • Waring,
  • Blighting,
  • contravene,
  • rapine,
  • Desecrating,
  • ferocious,
  • gloom,
  • wasteful,
  • Molesting,
  • consumptive,
  • Languishing,
  • hassling,
  • desertion,
  • bleakness,
  • annihilate,
  • abolition,
  • raiding,
  • desolation,
  • catastrophic,
  • catastrophe,
  • disobey,
  • subversive,
  • misery,
  • Destroying,
  • Preying,
  • Spoliative,
  • end,
  • calamitous,
  • fateful,
  • depression,
  • ravish,
  • Doomful,
  • raid,
  • break,
  • ravages,
  • unravel,
  • annihilating,
  • deaden,
  • desecrate,
  • Harrying,
  • Harassing,
  • demolition,
  • Emaciating,
  • fail,
  • aggressive.

Paraphrases for Ravaging:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    devastating.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    raging, razing, damaging, sabotaging, destabilizing, Plaguing, Jeopardizing, Derailing, Destroying, impair, Impairing, Subverting, trampling, breaking, Afflicting, eroding, undermining, Disrupting, Breaching, unravelling, demolishing, Bulldozing, upsetting, wrecking, ripping, ruining, Prejudicing, spoiling, devastating.

Antonyms for Ravaging:

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    constructive.

Homophones for Ravaging:

• repugnance, ravishing, rapaciousness, refocusing, revising.

Hyponym for Ravaging:

• n.

  • act
    plundering, pillaging, pillage.