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RAVAGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plundering with excessive damage and destruction
Synonyms:
devastation; ravaging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ravaging" is a kind of...):
pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)
Derivation:
ravage (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ruinously destructive and wasting
Example:
a ravaging illness
Classified under:
Similar:
destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ravage
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