Verb (used with object) : a face ravaged by grief. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the ravages of war. From Dictionary.com.
Sometimes their ravages are a matter of serious concern to the farmer. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
The first scene of our ravages was a large country-house, surrounded by the most charming grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
His doctors are trying to ward off the so-called ravages of age, but are aging him prematurely instead. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
It must be nice to be so free of the "ravages" of intelligence, but it is becoming rather irritating to read your comments. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary, Huckabee Leading In Iowa] Reference
July speech in front of Chinese leaders, when he warned that the U.S. and China must cooperate to avoid the "ravages" of climate change. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
"ravages" of inflation on the vulnerable sectors of society and measures to address the food crisis. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Nor is the Old World safe from the ravages of the modern. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts] Reference
As great as he is, he is not immune to the ravages of time. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: May The Second Season Begin] Reference
Success and wealth offer no protection from the ravages of depression. From Wordnik.com. [Men & Depression: Facing Darkness] Reference
It opened by talking about a poor stock market and the ravages of 9/11. From Wordnik.com. [INNER CIRCLE] Reference
It was up to me to keep my littlest one's childhood safe from the ravages of time. From Wordnik.com. [Putting The Camera Away] Reference
In the end, "Pearl Harbor" may be truer to Hollywood's rules than history's ravages. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To 'Pearl Harbor'] Reference
True, the same technology that ravages this planet may one day transport us to others. From Wordnik.com. [Hurling Through History] Reference
In Europe, governmental institutions had survived the ravages of the Second World War. From Wordnik.com. [What Vietnam Teaches Us] Reference
They know the enemy: an insidious disease that ravages virtually every organ in the body. From Wordnik.com. [A Step Past Chemotherapy] Reference
She was showing us the ravages, and the surprising beauty, revealed by breast-cancer treatments. From Wordnik.com. [Showing Off A Little (Inner) Cleavage] Reference
And, of course, the Alzheimer's disease that ravages her mind may more easily explain my sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Up—and Older—With Our Pets] Reference
In the fight to protect our faces from the ravages of aging, gravity is one of our biggest enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Mapping the Face] Reference
After benefiting from the blessings of war, the Red Sea Riviera may even survive the ravages of peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Paradise War Saved] Reference
And his underappreciated first film, "Truly, Madly, Deeply," was a funny, poignant look at the ravages of grief. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Them Well] Reference
So I have seen deprivation, the ravages of famine, but nothing of this scope when it came to physical destruction. From Wordnik.com. [George H.W. Bush] Reference
Twice in his 82 years Chuang had rescued the priceless collection of Beijing's Palace Museum from the ravages of war. From Wordnik.com. [Unburied Treasures] Reference
He said the team lifted up "the hopes and the dreams of a shattered city" in the wake of the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. From Wordnik.com. [Saints Visit White House, Obama (PICTURES)] Reference
He was in a hospital bed in our living room battling the ravages of kidney cancer that had spread to his bones and his brain. From Wordnik.com. [Dying With Courage] Reference
Lebanon has tried for most of this century to keep some sort of democratic process alive despite the ravages of civil strife. From Wordnik.com. [Step Forward. Now Inch Back.] Reference
Now science was showing it might be real, and Pitman, who sees the ravages of PTSD in his patients, wanted to get into the act. From Wordnik.com. [To Pluck a Rooted Sorrow] Reference
Like Robert, Brent watched acquaintances and friends suffer and die from the ravages of AIDS before he was also a genius taken. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Patti Smith and Just Kids] Reference
Even as recently as a couple of months ago, the big banks were clueless as to the ravages of the deteriorating credit environment. From Wordnik.com. [The $5 Billion Mulligan] Reference
Today, as food prices spiral out of control, the worry is that millions more of the world's poorest will also be lost to its ravages. From Wordnik.com. [The Biggest Crisis of All] Reference
His sweaty teammates ran back and forth, all in their last fleeting years of boyhood before the gawky ravages of adolescence took hold. From Wordnik.com. ['The Manny'] Reference
Much of the documentary shows in gripping detail the efforts to save Europe's treasures from Hitler 's clutches and the ravages of war. From Wordnik.com. [Art Lovers, Art Looters] Reference
Almost magically, Dubrovnik escaped the ravages of time and war, as if its beauty were sufficient to hold back periodic tides of barbarism. From Wordnik.com. ['Dubrovnik Has Become A Hell'] Reference
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