Ravage vs Trample - What's the difference?
ravage | trample |
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 crush something by walking on it.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 6
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
To walk heavily and destructively.
* Charles Dickens
(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
As verbs the difference between ravage and trample
is that ravage is while trample is to crush something by walking on it.As a noun trample is
the sound of heavy footsteps.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
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English
Verb
(trampl)- to trample grass or flowers
- Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- (Cowper)
