ravage
verb (used with object)
to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ruinous or destructive action.
were ravaging
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past progressiveof ravage.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For years Carter Caldwell had adamantly rejected doctors’ recommendations that he consider surgery to treat the frequent, uncontrolled seizures that were ravaging his brain.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2022
When I arrived, Victoria was engulfed in a thick, choking smoke coming from the forest fires that were ravaging the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Ms. von der Leyen’s confident tone, switching between English, French and German, was a sharp contrast with her speech last year, when new Covid-19 cases were ravaging the bloc and vaccines were months away.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
The bulk of damage was from three clusters of blazes that were ravaging forest and rural areas in the wine country and San Francisco Bay Area.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2020
Then befell it during this, that word came to the king that hostile ships lay westward, and were ravaging.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
