Depredate vs Ravage - What's the difference?
depredate | ravage |
to ransack or plunder; to prey upon
* Francis Bacon
to engage in plundering
To devastate or destroy something.
To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
To wreak destruction.
Grievous damage or havoc.
* Addison
Depredation or devastation
As verbs the difference between depredate and ravage
is that depredate is to ransack or plunder; to prey upon while ravage is to devastate or destroy something.As a noun ravage is
grievous damage or havoc.depredate
English
Verb
(depredat)- It makes the substance of the body less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
ravage
English
Verb
Noun
(en noun)- Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul?
- the ravage''' of a lion; the '''ravages''' of fire or tempest; the '''ravages of an army, or of time