ravaging

The word “ravaging” has 3 syllables: rav-a-ging

It's pronounced as /ˈrævɪdʒɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for ravaging?

In the thesaurus, “ravaging” has 124 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ravaging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ravaging

  • abolishing
  • abolition
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • assassinating
  • bane
  • bloodthirsty
  • burglary
  • carnage
  • carnivorous
  • crashing
  • crime
  • crushing
  • decimating
  • defacement
  • defacing
  • demolishing
  • demolishment
  • depredation
  • depredatory
  • desecrating
  • desecration
  • desolating
  • desolation
  • despoiling
  • despoilment
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • disintegrating
  • disrupting
  • dissolving
  • downfall
  • elimination
  • end
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • expunging
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • foraying
  • grafitti
  • greedy
  • harrying
  • havoc
  • hungry
  • hunting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • laying waste
  • liquidation
  • looting
  • loss
  • marauding
  • massacre
  • mischief
  • mowing
  • murder
  • nuking
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • overpowering
  • overrunning
  • overthrow
  • overthrowing
  • overwhelming
  • pillage
  • pillaging
  • plunder
  • plundering
  • predacious
  • predation
  • predative
  • preying
  • ransacking
  • rapacious
  • rapine
  • raptorial
  • ravage
  • ravening
  • razing
  • robbery
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sabotage
  • sacking
  • scourging
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • spoliation
  • stealing
  • stripping
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • theft
  • thieving
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trashing
  • undoing
  • vandalism
  • vandalization
  • vaporizing
  • voracious
  • vulturine
  • vulturous
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wolfish
  • wrack
  • wracking
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking

Antonyms for ravaging

  • accomplishment
  • birth
  • boon
  • building
  • conservation
  • construction
  • creation
  • fixing
  • goodness
  • improvement
  • mending
  • miracle
  • patching
  • preservation
  • protection
  • reconditioning
  • recovering
  • redeeming
  • rehabilitating
  • repairing
  • reparation
  • restoration
  • restoring
  • revamping
  • salvage
  • saving
  • success
  • wonder

Meanings of ravaging

  • verb
    1. To devastate or destroy something.
    2. To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
    3. To wreak destruction.
  • noun
    1. The act by which something is ravaged.

Example Sentences

  • The storm was ravaging the coastal towns with fierce winds and rain.
  • Soldiers marched through the land, ravaging everything in their path.
  • A deadly virus was ravaging the population with alarming speed.
  • Flames were ravaging the forest, consuming trees and wildlife.
  • The economy was ravaging small businesses across the region.

On this page you'll find 152 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ravaging, such as: abolishing, abolition, accomplishment, annihilating, annihilation, assassinating, bane.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

sabotage

  • annihilate
  • arrest
  • attack
  • baffle
  • bang up
  • block
  • bollix
  • bottleneck
  • brake
  • break
  • break up
  • check
  • constrain
  • cripple
  • curb
  • damage
  • decelerate
  • deep-six
  • deface
  • defacement
  • defacing
  • demolish
  • demolishing
  • demolishment
  • demolition
  • depredate
  • depredation
  • desecrate
  • desecrating
  • desecration
  • despoil
  • despoiling
  • despoilment
  • destroy
  • destruction
  • devastate
  • disable
  • disrupt
  • disruption
  • do
  • do in
  • encumber
  • foil
  • foul up
  • frustrate
  • graffiti
  • halt
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • harm
  • hinder
  • hobble
  • hold back
  • hold up
  • hurt
  • impair
  • impairment
  • impede
  • inhibit
  • injury
  • loot
  • looting
  • louse up
  • mar
  • maraud
  • marauding
  • mess up
  • mischief
  • obstruct
  • overthrow
  • pillage
  • pillaging
  • plunder
  • plundering
  • predation
  • put out of action
  • put out of commission
  • ransack
  • ransacking
  • ravage
  • ravaging
  • raven
  • raze
  • rein
  • restrain
  • retard
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • sack
  • sacking
  • scourge
  • screw up
  • set back
  • shatter
  • slacken
  • slow
  • smash
  • spoil
  • spoliate
  • spoliation
  • stop
  • subversion
  • subversiveness
  • subvert
  • tag
  • take out
  • tear down
  • throw a monkey wrench into
  • thwart
  • tie up
  • torpedo
  • total
  • trash
  • trashing
  • treachery
  • treason
  • undermine
  • undermining
  • vandalism
  • vandalization
  • vandalize
  • violate
  • waste
  • wipe out
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking

sabotaging

  • alienated
  • anarchistic
  • annihilating
  • arresting
  • attacking
  • baffling
  • banging up
  • bellicose
  • bottlenecking
  • braking
  • breaking
  • checking
  • constraining
  • contumacious
  • curbing
  • damaging
  • decelerating
  • defacing
  • defiant
  • demolishing
  • depredating
  • desecrating
  • despoiling
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • difficult
  • disaffected
  • disloyal
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • dissident
  • encumbering
  • factious
  • foiling
  • fractious
  • frustrating
  • graffitiing
  • graffiting
  • halting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • harming
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • hurting
  • iconoclastic
  • impairing
  • impeding
  • incorrigible
  • individualistic
  • inhibiting
  • insurgent
  • insurrectionary
  • intractable
  • looting
  • marauding
  • marring
  • mutinous
  • obstinate
  • obstructing
  • pillaging
  • plundering
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • radical
  • ransacking
  • ravaging
  • ravening
  • razing
  • rebel
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • reining
  • resistant
  • restless
  • restraining
  • retarding
  • revolutionary
  • rioting
  • riotous
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • scourging
  • seditious
  • setting back
  • shattering
  • slackening
  • slowing
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • spoliating
  • stopping
  • tagging
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • thwarting
  • tieing up
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trashing
  • treasonable
  • turbulent
  • tying up
  • ungovernable
  • unruly
  • vandalizing
  • violating
  • warring
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wracking
  • wrecking

sacking

  • abasement
  • abolishing
  • abolition
  • annihilation
  • assassinating
  • axing
  • bag
  • bane
  • bouncing
  • breaking in
  • bump
  • burglarizing
  • burglary
  • canning
  • carnage
  • cashiering
  • cloth
  • combing
  • crashing
  • crime
  • crushing
  • debasement
  • defacing
  • demotion
  • depredation
  • desecration
  • desolation
  • despoiling
  • despoilment
  • despoliation
  • devastation
  • discharging
  • disintegrating
  • dismissal
  • dismissing
  • disrating
  • disrupting
  • dissolving
  • downfall
  • downgrade
  • downsizing
  • elimination
  • end
  • eradication
  • excessing
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpation
  • firing
  • furloughing
  • grafitti
  • gunny
  • harrying
  • havoc
  • humiliation
  • hunting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • kicking out
  • laying off
  • laying waste
  • layoff
  • liquidation
  • looting
  • loss
  • marauding
  • massacre
  • mischief
  • murder
  • mustering out
  • obliteration
  • overthrow
  • pillage
  • pillaging
  • pink-slipping
  • piracy
  • pirating
  • plunder
  • plundering
  • privateering
  • raiding
  • raking
  • ransacking
  • rapine
  • ravaging
  • ravishing
  • reduction
  • releasing
  • removing
  • retiring
  • rifling
  • ripping off
  • robbery
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • rummaging
  • sending packing
  • separating
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • spoliation
  • stealing
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • terminating
  • theft
  • throwing out
  • trashing
  • trimming
  • turning off
  • undoing
  • unseating
  • wasting
  • wrack
  • wrapping
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

obliterating


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