Ravage vs Ravaged - What's the difference?
ravage | ravaged |
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
(ravage)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8
As verbs the difference between ravage and ravaged
is that ravage is to devastate or destroy something while ravaged is past tense of ravage.As a noun ravage
is grievous damage or havoc.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
External links
* * ----ravaged
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
