verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the ravages of sth
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Benedict was near thirty, and yet his face and form had withstood the ravages of time and circumstance.
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For a long time now, he has appeared indifferent to the ravages of his problem.
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His skin was unmarked, unlined; the flesh of youth, untouched by time or the ravages of experience.
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I had to make up for the ravages of time.
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Its dreamlike construction of our sceptred isle as an ethnically purified one provides a special comfort against the ravages of decline.
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Not even the quest for scientific knowledge is immune from the ravages of extremists in the environmental movement.
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Quarterback John Elway, 36, continues to defy the ravages of time.
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She was beautiful - painfully thin, but beautiful, even with the ravages of drug abuse drawing her face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A ragged tear ravaged the painted face that looked back at her.
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A year ago John Holman was near death, an opportunistic infection ravaging his intestines.
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He died alone, his body ravaged by self- abuse.
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In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel, which was ravaged by death-watch beetle.
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It was thus doomed to fail-but not before it had ravaged every society it touched.
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Nick made a start at restoring the ravaged wreck, but sadly died before much was done.
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The Civil War had brought an end to that; few could now afford to leave their ravaged homes.
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Worcester was burnt, and the shire ravaged, but few people killed: they had fled in all directions.