Ravage /(răv"ā̇j; 48)/

1. Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.

   Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul?

imp. & p. p. Ravaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging

1. To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

   Already Caesar Has ravaged more than half the globe.

   His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.