Usually means: Severe and extensive damage caused.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. ravages: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ravages: Merriam-Webster
  3. ravages: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ravages: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ravage's, Ravages, ravages: Wordnik
  6. ravages: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ravages: Wiktionary
  8. ravages: Dictionary.com
  9. ravages: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. ravages (mpl): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. ravages: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ravages: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  Harsh damage.

Similar:
devastate, waste, Harry, desolate, lay waste to, harrowing, havoc, wrack and ruin, ravishment, destruction, more...

Phrases:
ravages of time, The Ravages of Time, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, terrible, fearful, dreadful, frightful, worst, destructive, cruel, indian, further



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Similar:
devastate, waste, Harry, desolate, lay waste to, harrowing, havoc, wrack and ruin, ravishment, destruction, more...

Phrases:
ravages of time, The Ravages of Time, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, terrible, fearful, dreadful, frightful, worst, destructive, cruel, indian, further



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