Usually means: Destroy or damage severely, devastate.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word ravage:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ravage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ravage: Merriam-Webster
  3. ravage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ravage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ravage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ravage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ravage, ravage: Wordnik
  8. ravage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ravage: Wiktionary
  10. ravage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ravage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ravage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ravage, ravage: Dictionary.com
  14. ravage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ravage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ravage (Marvel Comics), Ravage (novel), Ravage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ravage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ravage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ravage: Rhymezone
  20. ravage, ravage (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ravage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ravage: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ravage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ravage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ravage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ravage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ravage: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
verb:  (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
verb:  (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
verb:  (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (slang) To rape.
noun:  Grievous damage or havoc.
noun:  Depredation or devastation.

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