ravager
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ravager
First recorded in 1605–15; ravage ( def. ) + -er 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves?the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus.
From Time Magazine Archive
A grey bear visited the folds at Hleithargarth; many such a ravager was there far and wide throughout the country.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
Aunt Mary, if she had been pretty in infancy, had been spoiled by that dreadful ravager, the small-pox, which she had caught, through the carelessness of a nurse, when she was five years old.
From Aunt Mary by Mrs. Perring
But this unaccountable gray ravager 108 was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.
From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
This puny grub, which will spin itself an infinitesimal cocoon of white silk under the piece attacked and will later become an insignificant moth, is the primordial ravager.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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