ravager — meaning in English

English meaning

• desolate adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
• plunder verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
• ravage verb To cause severe damage or destruction to something.

Senses

ravager is used for these senses in English:

• desolate To deprive of inhabitants.
• ravage (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.

desolate — full definition

1. adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
2. verb To make a place empty of people or life; to devastate.

plunder — full definition

1. verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
2. verb To take something excessively or wrongfully, as if by looting.
3. noun Goods stolen by force, or the act of taking them.

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