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RAVAGING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plundering with excessive damage and destruction

Synonyms:

devastation; ravaging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ravaging" is a kind of...):

pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)

Derivation:

ravage (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly)

 II. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Ruinously destructive and wasting

Example:

a ravaging illness

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

destructive (causing destruction or much damage)

 III. (verb) 

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-ing form of the verb ravage

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