Ravage vs Deteriorate - What's the difference?
ravage | deteriorate |
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
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
* Southey
To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
* {{quote-news
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As verbs the difference between ravage and deteriorate
is that ravage is while deteriorate is to make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.ravage
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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
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* * ----deteriorate
English
Verb
(deteriorat)- to deteriorate the mind
- The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation
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