Definition for Ravaging:

• ruinously destructive and wasting; " a ravaging illness"

Synonyms for Ravaging:

• adj.

  •predatory (adjective)
  • ravening,
  • wolfish,
  • Preying,
  • thieving,
  • raptorial,
  • predative,
  • Depredatory,
  • predacious,
  • vulturous,
  • vulturine.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • devastation,
  • ravaging.
  •depredation (noun)
  • spoliations,
  • sackings,
  • spoliation.
  •destruction (noun)
  • ruination,
  • crashings,
  • subjugation,
  • slayings,
  • subjugations,
  • vandalism,
  • crushings,
  • massacre,
  • havoc.
  •destructive (noun)
  • destructive.
  •vandalism (noun)
  • de-facing,
  • mis chief,
  • de-facings,
  • smashings,
  • grafittis,
  • defacings,
  • mis chiefs,
  • de facings,
  • de facing.

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • marauding.

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.

Ravaging Sentence Examples:

• Hannibal attempts to excite a suspicion of the fidelity of Fabius by sparing his farm while ravaging with fire the whole country around it.

• The story of his two years of fighting, ravaging, and slaying, is hard at this distance to reconcile with intelligible strategy.

Homophones for Ravaging:

• repugnance, ravishing, rapaciousness, refocusing, revising.

Hyponym for Ravaging:

• n.

  • act
    plundering, pillaging, pillage.