Ravages is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAVAGES in dictionary:

VERB:
• RAVAGE, to destroy
• cause severe and extensive damage to
NOUN:
• the destructive effects of something
• acts of destruction

Words related to RAVAGES

ravage10 ravaged12 ravaging13

Words that contain RAVAGES

stravages13 galravages15 gilravages15 gillravages16

How to use RAVAGES in a sentence

• During the last three years, the war had made such ravages in the country of Bunda, that no cattle remained there.
• The whole of their dominions quickly began to recover from the ravages of war.
• One had attempted to poison the other, and afterward a war had broken out between them, and all Syria was suffering from the ravages of their armies.
• Thousands perished in this way when the black plague made ravages in Europe in the fourteenth century.
• When the heats of summer arrive, its ravages will be frightful.
• The whole country, it was found, had now been in commotion for a month or more, owing to the ravages of the cholera and the Black Hawk war.
• In 1421, when Joan was hardly nine, a band of Anglo-Burgundians penetrated into her country, and transferred thither the ravages of war.
• The floor of my house was two or three feet above the ground in order to escape the ravages of the rats.
• Nevertheless these peaceful protestations produced absolutely no effect upon the Indian ravages, which continued with unabated fury.
• They have planted them with the splendid cypress-trees which now add so much to their picturesqueness, and annually repair the ravages of time.
• The disease extended, by way of Gloucester and Oxford, to London, reaching the capital early in November, and continuing its ravages until the following Whitsuntide.
• The commander delivered letters for the German ambassador and immediately put to sea to begin ravages on British shipping off the Nantucket coast.
• Only the tall stone piers standing, lone sentinels in the river, marked its ravages where the bridge had fallen.
• All the inhabitants of that country, innocent as well as guilty, were exposed to the ravages of this barbarian.
• Whenever it commenced its ravages, nothing seemed to stay its progress until there were no more victims for it to seize upon.
• The abuse of strong drink makes shameful ravages in our ranks, and is productive of serious disorder.
• An attack of pneumonia has proved too much for his reduced system to resist, and, meekly submitting to its ravages, he lies at last upon his death-bed.
• But for the ravages of wild beasts Naab believed he could raise a flock of many thousands and in a brief time be rich in sheep alone.
• The walls are still complete, but bear abundant traces of the ravages of time and warfare.
• The design of these ravages was obvious, because, when the Slave-trade was stopped, they ceased.
• For the general misery in Florence daily increased and the plague was extending its ravages.
• The collections in the three buildings, valued in the hundreds of thousands, in great part were destroyed, few being saved from the ravages of the fire.
• Snow was there, as became the pastor of a flock in which the wolf had made its ravages, and the meeting was opened with prayer, according to the usual custom.
• But the ravages of agriculture are everywhere seen.

Similar words containing RAVAGE without suffix s

ravage10 ravaged12 ravager11 ravagers12 stravage12 galravage14 gilravage14 stravaged14 stravages13 unravaged14 galravaged16 galravages15 gillravage15 gilravaged16 gilravager15 gilravages15 ravagement16 gillravaged17 gillravages16 gilravagers16 ravagements17

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