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ravager

[ rav-i-jer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that works havoc or does ruinous damage:
Cancer is a ravager of the body and soul.
Toward the end of the 8th century, Viking ravagers began to harry the British Isles.

Origin of ravager¹

First recorded in 1605–15; ravage ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

But this unaccountable gray ravager 108 was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.

This checked the hounds for a moment, but Ravager cast forward, and presently they came on faster than ever.

He looked back at the pack working out his line in the fields below him, and saw that Ravager was at their head.

A grey bear visited the folds at Hleithargarth; many such a ravager was there far and wide throughout the country.

The good fortune that secured me the ravaged pupa taught me nothing concerning the tactics of the ravager.

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