Ravaging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAVAGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• RAVAGE, to destroy
• cause severe and extensive damage to
NOUN:
• the destructive effects of something
• acts of destruction
• plundering with excessive damage and destruction
ADJECTIVE:
• ruinously destructive and wasting

Words related to RAVAGING

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Words that contain RAVAGING

stravaging15 galravaging17 gilravaging17 gillravaging18

How to use RAVAGING in a sentence

• He went in person against the robbers who were ravaging the country.
• He proceeds towards Rome, ravaging the country as he goes along.
• Hannibal attempts to excite a suspicion of the fidelity of Fabius by sparing his farm while ravaging with fire the whole country around it.
• Achilles had spent much of the intervening time in ravaging twelve cities of Asia Minor, carrying away treasures and captive women, after the piratical Greek custom.
• Falling furiously on the scattered settlers, they killed them or drove them into the wooden forts, ravaging, burning, and murdering as elsewhere, and sparing neither age nor sex.
• Emancipation had swept away his power while it left the love of it ravaging his heart.
• A British force during the winter and spring had been plundering and ravaging in Virginia, under the traitor Arnold.
• But the British, who still held the frontier post at Detroit, roused them, and in 1790 they were again at work, ravaging the country north of the Ohio.
• Since peace began, no one can accuse us either of wantonly attacking any city, or of seizing the wealth of any, or of ravaging a foreign territory.
• Together they advanced upon the Roman territory, and after ravaging the country threatened to besiege Rome.
• In February and March, John of Gaunt conducted a ravaging expedition into Scotland as far as Edinburgh.
• Meanwhile, William had crossed to Pevensey, and was ravaging the coast.
• The British army, after ravaging the State of Virginia, had sent off a very great number of slaves to New York.
• The two Consuls advanced to the walls of Syracuse, ravaging the territory of the city and capturing many of its dependent towns.
• He has spent many weeks of this hot summer, when cholera was ravaging his country, in his summer palace at Nikko.
• The natives were seen ravaging the fields, destroying the plantations, and doing terrible damage, to the intense exasperation of the Portuguese governor.
• The blaze of a seemingly uncontrollable fire is leaping, ravaging last remaining great Power on European continent.
• These horrible diseases, ravaging the guilty and the innocent, equally and indifferently, are at present allowed to do so with scarcely a voice raised against them.
• They are warranted to withstand any climate, and defy the ravaging tooth of time.
• The excitement within him was like a ravaging disease.
• But he had scarcely closed his eyes before a messenger arrived from the elders of Esthonia, announcing that war had broken out, and that a hostile army was ravaging the country.
• Nor should we exaggerate the condition of the time, thinking of it as altogether given over to ravaging and devastation.
• On the frontier, Sullivan, after some delays, did his work effectively, ravaging the Indian towns and reducing them to quiet, thus taking away another annoyance and danger.
• The first body had arrived early in January under the command of Arnold, and a general marauding and ravaging took place.
• He crossed Broad river, ravaging the country through which he marched.
• At first this army, after ravaging the lands of Attica with fire and sword, retired to Acarnania with booty of all kinds.
• But when information reached them that one of the consuls was ravaging the country of the Boians, a dispute instantly arose.
• Instead of ravaging the newly-found countries, he sought to found regular and prosperous enterprises.
• He struggled with his own anxiety that the intervening obstacles to his journey should not deprive him of serenity and trust, but the inward fever was ravaging within.
• This was at their first entry, and gave them courage to continue ravaging other neighboring islands, where the members of our Society are also in danger.
• The next morning, when she came down to breakfast, her face was haggard with those ravaging tears, and with the fatigue of hating.
• He advanced, ravaging the country, even to the gates of Moscow.
• This barbaric chieftain, who was called Pugatshef, very soon found himself at the head of fourteen thousand fierce warriors, and commenced ravaging oriental Russia.
• Nassau replied by ravaging the country up to the walls of Arnhem, the Gueldres capital.
• Ravaging a country, burning private dwellings, or otherwise wantonly destroying property, is not justifiable, except in cases of absolute necessity.

Similar words containing RAVAG without suffix ing

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