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Ravages vs Gavages - What's the difference?

ravages | gavages |

As verbs the difference between ravages and gavages

is that ravages is third-person singular of ravage while gavages is third-person singular of gavage.

As a noun ravages

is plural of ravage.

ravages

English

Noun

(head)
  • (pluralonly) Harsh damages.
    • The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ravage)
    • ----

    gavages

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gavage)
    • ----

    gavage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
  • A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
  • (medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach

    • Verb

    (gavag)
  • To stuff or glut with something
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 8, Mike Albo, Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago, New York Times citation
    • , passage=If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one. }} ----