Ravage

rav'ej, n. Desolation by violence violent destruction; devastation; pillage; spoil; waste; ruin. — r. [ravaged (-ejd), -aging.] To lay waste by force, despoil, sack, desolate, destroy. [F., ravage, "ravager, to ravage, L. rapere, to seize see Rapid.] — RaVager, n. Rave, rav, r. [raved (ravd), raving.] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk irrationallv or frantically to be furious or raging to rush wildly or noisily. — v. To utter in frenzy, say wildly. [OF. raver, Sp. rabiar, fr. Sp. and LL. rabi a, L. rabies, rage, q. v.]