Ravage
Ravage (rav"aj; 48) , noun
[French, from (assumed) Latin rapagium, rapaticum, from rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See Rapacious, Ravish.]
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.
Would one think 't were possible for love
To make such ravage in a noble soul?
Ravage (rav"ajd) , transitive verb
[French ravager. See Ravage, n.]
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Already Caesar
Has ravaged more than half the globe.
His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.