| 单词 | ravage |
| 释义 | rav·age I. 1. < complete a victory with ravage > < secure from ravage by fire > 2. < repair the ravage wrought by war > < the ravage of time > II. transitive verb intransitive verb • rav·ag·er Synonyms: < a forest area ravaged by fire > < four major disasters had ravaged the country in the interval; the great smallpox epidemic, the great rinderpest outbreak, an intense drought with consequent famine and a devastating locust invasion — L.S.B.Leakey > < the cities of the Main were ravaged, citizens were tortured, robbed, murdered, women were ravished, churches looted while the bells tolled horror — Marjory S. Douglas > devastate may stress the ruin and desolation ensuing from ravaging, demolishing, burning, and eradicating < devastating conflicts such as those which destroyed Greek, Roman, and Saracen civilization, which drenched Europe in blood — M.R.Cohen > < the city was a devastated waste of smoldering embers: seventeen thousand four hundred and fifty people were homeless — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < if an atom or hydrogen bomb should be dropped on an American city, the devastated community would not be expected to confront the emergency unaided — Felix Morley > waste, often a close synonym for devastate, may on the other hand apply to situations in which damage and desolation are accomplished more slowly and less dramatically and definitively < with four legions, seized their cattle, wasted their country — J.A.Froude > < his fingers wasted by illness — Winston Churchill > sack may apply to the acts of a victorious invader in stripping a captured area of everything of value; it may suggest large-scale or complete burglarizing and looting < the retreating Federals sacked and burned as they went, leaving scarcely a cabin in their wake — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < after De Soto helped Pizarro sack Peru — American Guide Series: Florida > < summer cottages sacked by the gang > pillage, often interchangeable with sack, may suggest somewhat less ruthless and general devastation and slightly more selectivity in plundering < their goods and chattels are pillaged, or filched for worthless money — Sir Winston Churchill > despoil usually applies to the ransacking, looting, or expropriation of valuables, often of a particular building or specific place < the same Roman raid that had despoiled his home and enslaved him at twenty had likewise brought disaster to their neighbors — L.C.Douglas > spoiliate is a legalistic synonym for despoil, often applicable to destruction visited on a neutral, noncombatant, or victim of piracy < from the ages, from the barbarians, the land had been burnt and spoliated — Richard Llewellyn > |
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