ravages

Noun

plural form of ravage
(plural only) Harsh damages.
The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative form of ravage

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The reconstructive work necessary after the ravages of the war was enormous.
And impoverished by the ravages of the Huns.
(1605-1661), sided with the imperialists in the Thirty Years' War, during which Hesse-Darmstadt suffered very severely from the ravages of the Swedes.
The core is served with a thick coating of wet jute, yarn or hemp (h), forming a soft bed for the sheath, and, to secure immunity from the ravages of submarine boring animals, e.g.
Forest trees also suffer from their ravages, especially the conifers (Lophyrus pini).

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