ravages
noun
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Grievous damage or havoc.
Depredation or devastation
Example: the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time
verb
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To devastate or destroy something.
To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
To wreak destruction.
noun
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Harsh damage.
Example: The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.