Definition of "ravaging" [ravaging]

• Present participle of ravage. (verb)

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• "Spanish-American word ravaging our coasts and carrying off the pride of the youth has to answer for many such bridal parties, whose tours have been followed with pins and colored pencils and eyes more eager than those of mothers-in-law."
• "Unless you have been hiding under a rock, a well insulated sound proof rock, then you probably know about the swine flu H1N1 that is "ravaging" the world right now."
• "Not "ravaging" him would have amounted to journalistic malpractice."