Syn. — Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin.
RAVAGE
Rav"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging.]
Etym: [F. ravager. See Ravage, n.]
Defn: To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc
or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Already Cæsar Has ravaged more than half the globe. Addison.
His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. Macaulay.
Syn. — To despoil; pillage; plunger; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
RAVAGER
Rav"a*ger, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
RAVE Rave, n. Etym: [Prov. E. raves, or rathes, a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.]
Defn: One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
RAVE Rave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raved; p. pr. & vb. n. Raving.] Etym: [F. rêver to rave, to be delirious, to dream; perhaps fr. L. rabere to rave, rage, be mad or furious. Cf. Rage, Reverie.]
1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. In our madness evermore we rave. Chaucer. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast Addison. The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Kiliecrankie. Macaulay.