- ravagement
- noun see ravage II
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
ravagement
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ravagement — index defilement Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
ravagement — (ra va je man) s. m. Action de ravager. HISTORIQUE XVIe s. • De mesme effroi les moines quitterent l abbaye, de laquelle les ministres empescherent le ravagement, D AUB. Hist. I, 68 … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
ravagement — … Useful english dictionary
ravage — ravagement, n. ravager, n. /rav ij/, v., ravaged, ravaging, n. v.t. 1. to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief. v.i. 2. to work havoc; do ruinous damage. n. 3. havoc; ruinous damage: the ravages of war. 4.… … Universalium
ravage — I. noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, from ravir to ravish more at ravish Date: circa 1611 1. an act or practice of ravaging 2. damage resulting from ravaging ; violently destructive effect < the ravages of time > II. verb … New Collegiate Dictionary
defilement — I noun abomination, adulteration, besmirching, blackening, contamination, corruption, corruption of purity, debasement, debauchment, deflowering, degradation, demoralization, denigration, depravation, desecration, despoilment, devastation,… … Law dictionary
banditry — Synonyms and related words: armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, bank robbery, brigandage, brigandism, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, extortion, foraging, foray,… … Moby Thesaurus
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desolation — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abandonment, aching heart, agonizingness, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, barren, barren land, barrenness, barrens, bitterness, bleeding heart, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup,… … Moby Thesaurus
despoliation — Synonyms and related words: abomination, atrocity, bad, banditry, bane, befoulment, blight, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage, consumption, corruption, crying evil, damage, damnation, decimation, defilement,… … Moby Thesaurus
