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Definition of ravaging : of Ravage

Synonyms:

destruction, desolation, devastation, destructive

ruining, spoiling, damaging, despoiling, ransacking, depredating, rending, pillaging, laying waste, wasting, marring, wreaking havoc, wrecking, vandalizing

Usage examples:

• The discouragements to marriage, the consequent vicious habits, war, luxury, the silent though certain depopulation of large towns, and the close habitations, and insufficient food of many of the poor, prevent population from increasing beyond the means of subsistence; and, if I may use an expression which certainly at first appears strange, supercede the necessity of great and ravaging epidemics to repress what is redundant. - "An Essay on the Principle of Population", Thomas Malthus.
• His general intention seems to have been to make sooner or later for his allies in Flanders, and meanwhile to take rich towns and loot them, and to bring pressure upon the King of France by ravaging distant and populous territories which the French army could not rapidly reach. - "Crecy", Hilaire Belloc.
• There must be a vast satisfaction in looking back over the small triumphs won against tremendous forces, the successful contest with wild winter storm, ravaging disease, night- prowling beasts. - "The Flockmaster of Poison Creek", George W. Ogden.