ravager

American  

[rav-i-jer] / ˈræv ɪ dʒər /

noun

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of ravager

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

Example Sentences

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ravager

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

Here, for intrigant and ravager, penitent and saint, failure and world-weary, was sanctuary—respite, if only for an hour, from sin and strife, passion and hate and self.

From The House of Toys by Miller, Henry Russell

The scathing of fire embrowned its sides, and the uprooted garden marked where the ravager had been.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

The chemist steps in; and the ravager is destroyed or rendered less noxious.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles

Thus was the soldier what he ought to be, the true defender, not the ravager of his country.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

Related Words

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