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Definition of Ravaging

1. Noun. Plundering with excessive damage and destruction.

2. Adjective. Ruinously destructive and wasting. "A ravaging illness"

Definition of Ravaging

1. Verb. (present participle of ravage) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ravaging

1. ravage [v] - See also: ravage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravaging

rauns rauscher virus rauvite rauvolfia rauwolfia rauwolfia alkaloids rauwolfias rauwolscine ravage ravaged

ravagement ravagements ravager ravagers ravages ravaging (current term) ravatite rave rave-up raved

ravehook ravel ravel out raveled raveler ravelers ravelin raveling ravelings ravelins

Literary usage of Ravaging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Athenian Empire by George William Cox (1888)
"A series of defeats reduced the Chian s to a state of siege within their walls, and compelled them to ravaging look passively on the ravaging of those ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"St. the unhappy discord still ravaging the order. St. Bonaventure's aim was to present a general portrait of the holy founder which, by the omission of ..."

3. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1863)
"... by alleging that this was done only with a view to cover their own frontier:—that was an end to which the ravaging of the Palatinate contributed but ..."

4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"A fearful harrying ravaging fell on city and shire and on the lands round about.1 From Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, men young and old, ..."

5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"3*7- The exceptions to these general mitigations of the ravaging the extreme rights of war, considered as a contest of force, territory all grow out of the ..."

6. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton, Richard Henry Dana (1866)
"... out of the same original principle of natural law, when iaw- which authorizes us to use against an enemy such a de- 1 ravaging of the first occupant. ..."

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