ravaging

English

Verb

ravaging

  1. present participle and gerund of ravage

Noun

ravaging (plural ravagings)

  1. The act by which something is ravaged.
    • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier:
      I […] had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers […]
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