English Dictionary

ravage

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹævɪdʒ/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 俗語

(transitive) To devastate or destroy something. / (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something. / (intransitive) To wreak destruction.

日本語の意味

（対象を）壊滅させる、荒廃させる / （敵地などを）襲撃して略奪する、蹂躙する / 破壊を引き起こす、惨事をもたらす

The wildfire threatened to ravage the coastal town before firefighters contained it.

消防士が鎮圧する前に、山火事は沿岸の町を壊滅させる恐れがあった。

意味（1）

(transitive) To devastate or destroy something.

But the most important service which Probus rendered to the republic was the deliverance of Gaul, and the recovery of seventy flourishing cities oppressed by the barbarians of Germany, who, since the death of Aurelian, had ravaged that great province with impunity.

意味（2）

(transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To wreak destruction.

意味（4）

(slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.

意味（5）

(slang) To rape.

ravages （ present singular third-person ）

ravaging （ participle present ）

ravaged （ participle past ）

ravaged （ past ）