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  1. ravagesnoun

    Harsh damages.

    The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ravages in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ravages in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ravages in a Sentence

  1. Jack Greatrex:

    You hear of the plague, and instantly you think of Black Death which ravages Europe, it has that enormous historical baggage, it's where lots of our ideas about what it means to have an epidemic comes from.

  2. Time Bandits:

    Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

  3. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:

    The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

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