Ravaging: alternatives and connections

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- ofte…

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- ofte…

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

The act of pillaging; robbery.

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of Pillage

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of Plunder

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.