Despoil vs. Ravage

Despoilverb

(transitive) To to plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.

Despoilverb

(transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.

Despoilverb

To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

Despoilnoun

(obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

Despoilverb

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

Despoilverb

To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; - usually followed by of.

Despoilnoun

Spoil.

Despoilverb

steal goods; take as spoils;

Despoilverb

destroy and strip of its possession;

Ravageverb

(transitive) To devastate or destroy something.

Ravageverb

(transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.

Ravageverb

(intransitive) To wreak destruction.

Ravagenoun

Grievous damage or havoc.

Ravagenoun

Depredation or devastation

Ravagenoun

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.

Ravageverb

To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

Ravagenoun

(usually plural) a destructive action;

Ravageverb

make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

Ravageverb

devastate or ravage;

Ravageverb

cause severe and extensive damage to

Ravagenoun

the destructive effects of something

Ravagenoun

acts of destruction