RAVAGES


Meaning of RAVAGES in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bureaucracy was also a necessary evil to cope with the ravages of war.

Doubtless photography is making the same ravages on this side of the Channel as it is with us.

His skin was unmarked, unlined; the flesh of youth, untouched by time or the ravages of experience.

Perhaps she chose to save herself from what she foresaw as the ravages of vengeance.

Quarterback John Elway, 36, continues to defy the ravages of time.

She was beautiful - painfully thin, but beautiful, even with the ravages of drug abuse drawing her face.

The ravages of the Napoleonic Wars hit the merchant guilds particularly hard.

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