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1. Ruinously destructive and wasting
   "a ravaging illness"

1. Plundering with excessive damage and destruction
   - devastation

1. Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
   - harry
    
2. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
   - lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, scourge, lay waste

See also: destructive

Type of: destroy, pillage, pillaging, plundering, ruin

Encyclopedia: Ravage