A ravaging illness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : a face ravaged by grief. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the ravages of war. From Dictionary.com.
Hurricane Ike is currently "ravaging" South Texas with his. From Wordnik.com. [Blogrunner] Reference
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, a well insulated sound proof rock, then you probably know about the swine flu H1N1 that is "ravaging" the world right now. From Wordnik.com. [Pornpig Porn Party] Reference
Too mushy ': Is an epidemic of love ravaging the planet?. From Wordnik.com. [Isn't It Romantic?] Reference
Panama, capturing vessels and ravaging the adjacent islands. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The years 1239 and 1240 were spent in ravaging southern Russia. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
Dave Barry, a Nebraska farmer, on the drought ravaging much of America. From Wordnik.com. [Perspectives] Reference
The team lost two riders yesterday as a stomach bug is ravaging the team. From Wordnik.com. [Igor Anton wins Vuelta a Espana stage 4] Reference
The disease is ravaging the countryside, and last week it spread to Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Bring On The Big Guns] Reference
When a large bank teeters on insolvency, it threatens a ravaging forest fire. From Wordnik.com. [Katy Welter: Small Banks May Fail but They're Still a Better Bet] Reference
Thus the contagion which is now ravaging West Barbary was imported from Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
They amused themselves by terrifying the inhabitants and ravaging the countryside. From Wordnik.com. [Guests Welcome] Reference
The diabetes that began ravaging my body as a child makes that unrealistic, though. From Wordnik.com. [Catch-22 For A Transplant] Reference
The LRA has spent the last four years ravaging the forest communities of central Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Sudan's 'Arrow Boys' Challenge Militants] Reference
Meanwhile, global economic weakness is ravaging private equity, with real estate close behind. From Wordnik.com. [Hedgehogs Ravaged by Bears] Reference
Meanwhile the barbarians had advanced into Etruria, ravaging the country as they moved southward. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Local housing authorities recommended the childless to abandon empty ravaging to become a true home. From Wordnik.com. [Soviet] Reference
A Spartan army was soon overrunning Attica, while an Athenian fleet was ravaging the coasts of the. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Psychiatrists have parsed the ravaging effects of post-traumatic stress in thousands of clinical studies. From Wordnik.com. [Jessica Stern's "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," reviewed by Marie Arana] Reference
Despite the ravaging effects of high unemployment, the ephemeralization of the economy continues unabated. From Wordnik.com. [Why Amazon Will Win The Internet] Reference
This was the state of affairs, when the pagan Saxons, ravaging the country, obliged him to leave Friseland. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
India's troops are now ravaging, not on our borders only, but penetrating even into the heart of our nation?. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
They landed in the early days of January, 1520, and proceeded northwards, ravaging the country as they went. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The rebels finding the Shenandoah open to them, at once pushed northward with a view of ravaging Maryland and. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
The British army, after ravaging the State of Virginia, had sent off a very great number of slaves to New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
I have no doubt but the epidemy, which has been ravaging Spain lately, is the same disorder with the one above described. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
For four years the Danes had been ravaging the eastern part of the country, burning monasteries and slaying their inmates. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
Already the barbarians had defeated the Roman army under the nobleman Catulus, and were ravaging the rich plains of the Po. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Yet Mongolia is also now waking up to a post-Soviet hangover -- an alcohol problem that is ravaging its cities and families. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Tippling] Reference
So, it's becoming more and more clear that Alzheimer's starts ravaging the brain at least a decade before memory problems appear. From Wordnik.com. [Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found To Predict Alzheimer's] Reference
Bove Sr. has plenty of fans: in 1997, he helped discover the cause of a disease that was ravaging Brazil's 300 million orange trees. From Wordnik.com. [Like Father, Unlike Son] Reference
The economic crisis is ravaging the state, the real-estate market has cratered and job losses statewide are the worst in the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Sunshine-State Scandal] Reference
Angus Stovold, a Surrey cattleman, on the foot-and-mouth disease ravaging England "I've got one politician in the family, and that's enough.". From Wordnik.com. [Perspectives] Reference
Some peasant families claim to be running low on food stocks after losing their banana and yucca crops to the ravaging effects of the herbicide. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Breach] Reference
"I don't know how you place emphasis on a disease that is ravaging a continent when you don't place emphasis on one that is ravaging your own community.". From Wordnik.com. [A Cause That Crosses The Color Line] Reference
We can start the century with cars that don't pollute and not worry so much about ravaging the environment to make interstate highways and expand our cities. From Wordnik.com. [A Quick Fix For Bug 2000] Reference
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