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- English Word Ravage Definition Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
- English Word Ravage Definition To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
- English Word Ravaged Definition of Ravage
- English Word Ravager Definition One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
- English Word Ravaging Definition of Ravage
- English Word Rave Definition imp. of Rive.
- English Word Rave Definition One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
- English Word Rave Definition To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
- English Word Rave Definition To rush wildly or furiously.
- English Word Rave Definition To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
- English Word Rave Definition To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
- English Word Raved Definition of Rave
- English Word Ravehook Definition A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.
- English Word Ravel Definition To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
- English Word Ravel Definition To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
- English Word Ravel Definition To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
- English Word Ravel Definition To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
- English Word Ravel Definition To fall into perplexity and confusion.
- English Word Ravel Definition To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
- English Word Raveled Definition of Ravel
- English Word Raveler Definition One who ravels.
- English Word Ravelin Definition A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.
- English Word Raveling Definition of Ravel
- English Word Raveling Definition The act of untwisting or of disentangling.
- English Word Raveling Definition That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
- English Word Ravelled Definition of Ravel
- English Word Ravelling Definition of Ravel
- English Word Raven Definition A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
- English Word Raven Definition Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
- English Word Raven Definition Rapine; rapacity.