ravaging

English

Verb

ravaging

1. present participle and gerund of ravage

Noun

ravaging (plural ravagings)

1. The act by which something is ravaged.
   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier:

     I […] had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers […]