Definitions for ravages

ravages rav·age

Spelling: [rav-ij]
IPA: /ˈræv ɪdʒ/

Ravages is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in ravages (aaegrsv).

Definitions for ravages

noun

  1. havoc; ruinous damage:
  2. devastating or destructive action.

verb (used with object)

  1. to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages:

verb (used without object)

  1. to work havoc; do ruinous damage.

Origin of ravages

1605-15; French, Middle French, equivalent to rav(ir) to ravish + -age -age

Examples for ravages

In the Coupeau household the vitriol of l'Assommoir was also commencing its ravages.

Here he is describing the state of the body when it is hauled ashore: “Its humanity had been lost to the ravages of nature.”

The unemployed have a right to be anxious about the ravages on their families exacted by their unemployment.

We have gone a long way towards mitigating the ravages of nature.

The war was such that all dwelling in the midst of its ravages must choose their side.

She stood under the chandelier, and he saw at once the ravages that trouble had made in her.

He looked into his own heart—he was almost afraid to look—and saw the ravages of disease there.

The ravages to which her heart was subjected, proved still more terrible.

It was simply a reaction to the ravages of war and an expression of fear that this conflict might never end.

A surge of hormones floods their body and ravages the heart.

Word Value for ravages
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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