as in ravage
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as in destroying
to bring destruction to (something) through violent action
the hurricane ravaged the state and caused billions of dollars worth of damage
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Noun
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But when blazes eat up urban areas and ravage buildings — such as the hardware store that burned, with its buckets full of paints and toxic chemicals — the smoke contains all sorts of other harmful particles, including the lead and asbestos that deputies were warned of in Wednesday’s message.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Los Angeles is experiencing colder-than-average temperatures as devastating wildfires ravage parts of Southern California.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The most pressing problem concerns European Union rules on carbon dioxide emissions, with bottom-line-destroying fines for the bigger failures.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
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As a series of explosions could be heard destroying the structure's support pillars, causing the old hotel to fall inward, the crowd of onlookers are heard in the video erupting in cheers.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
2 Jan. 2025
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Israel’s ultimate war goal is the complete destruction of Hamas.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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Along with this, the enemy's oil refining industry facilities are becoming the objects of our destruction.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Robbed of the event’s usual flair, the competitors instead put on a display of oafish masculinity, eating Combos on the ice and getting overly handsy with a female partner, among other desecrations of the sport.—
Dan Reilly,
Vulture,
30 July 2024
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Jared Krysiak pleaded guilty to a charge of desecration of human remains in connection with brutal slaying of Kerry Rollason, according to a statement released by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
18 Dec. 2024
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The aftershocks of the Vietnam War and the ruination of family legacy also came into play in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).—
Richard Newby,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2024
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Athens used its financial power to abuse its allies and in doing so precipitated its own ruination.—
Henry Farrell,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Jan. 2020
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“Ravaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravaging. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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