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单词 ravager
释义

ravagern.

Brit. /ˈravᵻdʒə/, U.S. /ˈrævɪdʒər/
Forms: see ravage v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: ravage v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < ravage v. + -er suffix1, originally after French ravageur (1578 in Middle French).
A person who or thing which ravages.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation > one who or that which
wastera1382
harrowerc1450
harrier1596
desolation1608
ravager1611
dispeopler1616
depopulator1623
desolatora1638
vastator1659
havocker1680
devaster1789
devastator1818
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]
riflera1350
ravenerc1384
pillerc1385
preyerc1390
raptora1398
peelera1425
despoiler1467
spulyierc1475
pillardc1485
ruggerc1485
pollera1513
booty-fellow1530
spoiler1535
caterpillar1541
kitea1556
ransacker?1576
predator1581
lurdan1589
worm1591
scraper1598
pillager?1611
ravager1611
bird of preya1616
depredator1626
plunderer1639
expilator1658
shark1713
depredationist1828
spoliator1831
rapiner1843
ravisher1851
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ravageur, a rauager, spoyler, forrayer.
1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Amphitryon iv. viii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 58 [I] defeated those Ravagers, who had kill'd Electryon, and my Wife's Brothers.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 72 By a small Misguidance of the Affection, a Lover of Mankind, becomes a Ravager.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 226 That very Innocence, which tempts some brutal Ravager to ruin it.
1815 Monthly Mag. 38 500 He sees..in the torrent, now the fertilizer, now the ravager of districts.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 670 The ravager of Rome his right hand slew.
1905 Times 10 May 6/2 The ravager is not the moth, but its larvæ.
1961 Modesto (Calif.) Bee & News-Herald 6 Nov. The day of the plunderers and ravagers of the land has been moderated but the exploiters still have their claws out.
2001 16th Cent. Jrnl. 32 880 During her lifetime and long after her death Elizabeth I was alternately hailed as the defender of Protestantism, or the ravager of the English Roman Catholic Church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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