| 单词 | ravage |
| 释义 | ravage (once / 796 pages) vn The word ravage can be used as a noun or a verb meaning destruction or to destroy. In a war, bombs and the attacking army will ravage the country under siege. When ravage is used as a noun, you usually see it in the plural. Beware of the ravages of drugs on your body and your life. The city has almost been destroyed by the ravages of poverty and disaster. Often you see it paired with the word, time, to describe how things fall apart as they age. The ravages of time may be apparent in the lined faces and hunched postures of your grandparents. WORD FAMILYravage: ravaged, ravages, ravaging+/ravaging: ravagings USAGE EXAMPLESThe brand represents a new approach for Constellation, which also recently launched Ravage, a red-wine brand geared toward men with horseback-riding knights on its labels. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Scientists associated tau buildup with Alzheimer’s, but that disease ravaged the elderly. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) By the fifteen-thirties, the slavers were ravaging the Mosquito Coast and the Olancho Valley of central Honduras, destroying villages and rounding up people like cattle. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1v cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly Syn|Hypo|Hyper desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste ruin reduce to ruins destroy, ruin destroy completely; damage irreparably 2v make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartime Syn|Hyper harry destroy, ruin destroy completely; damage irreparably 3n (usually plural) a destructive action the ravages of time Syn|Hyper depredation demolition, destruction, wipeout an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
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