"ravage" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/ Audio: en-us-ravage.ogg Forms: ravages [plural]
Rhymes: -ævɪd͡ʒ Etymology: From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|ravage||ravage, havoc, spoil}} French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), {{uder|en|la|rapere||to snatch, seize}} Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), {{uder|en|grc|ἁρπάζω||to seize}} Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ravage (plural ravages)
  1. Grievous damage or havoc. Translations (grievous damage or havoc): разруха (razruha) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ødelæggelse [common-gender] (Danish), tuho (Finnish), hävitys (Finnish), ravatge [masculine] (Occitan), estrago (Portuguese), ravagiu [neuter] (Romanian), estrago [masculine] (Spanish), hasar (Turkish), yıkım (Turkish), tahribat (Turkish), tahrip (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-ravage-en-noun-pk2ug3uh Disambiguation of 'grievous damage or havoc': 100 0
  2. Depredation or devastation. Translations (depredation or devastation): опустошение (opustošenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ødelæggelse [common-gender] (Danish), tuho (Finnish), hävitys (Finnish), Verwüstung [feminine] (German), devastazione (Italian), devastação [feminine] (Portuguese), ravagiu [neuter] (Romanian), devastare [feminine] (Romanian), hasar (Turkish), tahribat (Turkish), tahrip (Turkish), yıkım (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-ravage-en-noun-DW3uxd12 Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'depredation or devastation': 0 100

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹævɪd͡ʒ/ Audio: en-us-ravage.ogg Forms: ravages [present, singular, third-person], ravaging [participle, present], ravaged [participle, past], ravaged [past]
Rhymes: -ævɪd͡ʒ Etymology: From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|ravage||ravage, havoc, spoil}} French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), {{uder|en|la|rapere||to snatch, seize}} Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), {{uder|en|grc|ἁρπάζω||to seize}} Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to seize”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)
  1. (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something. Tags: transitive Translations (to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something): λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai) (Ancient Greek), اِجْتَاحَ (ijtāḥa) (Arabic), خَرَبَ (ḵaraba) (Arabic), dağıtmaq (Azerbaijani), xaraba qoymaq (Azerbaijani), viran etmək (Azerbaijani), yixmaq (Azerbaijani), разрушавам (razrušavam) (Bulgarian), pustošit [imperfective] (Czech), zpustošit [perfective] (Czech), zničit [perfective] (Czech), ødelægge (Danish), verwoesten (Dutch), teisteren (Dutch), tuhota (Finnish), hävittää (Finnish), ravager (French), estragar (Galician), verwüsten (German), zerstören (German), devastare (Italian), distruggere (Italian), populor (Latin), vastō (Latin), dēvastō (Latin), ру́ши (rúši) (Macedonian), ра́зруши (rázruši) (Macedonian), منهدم کردن (monhadem kardan) (Persian), dewastować [imperfective] (Polish), niszczyć [imperfective] (Polish), pustoszyć [imperfective] (Polish), devastar (Portuguese), опустоша́ть (opustošátʹ) (Russian), estragar (Spanish), härja (Swedish), ödelägga (Swedish), yıkmak (Turkish), tahrip etmek (Turkish), спусто́шувати (spustóšuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), спусто́шити (spustóšyty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), розоря́ти (rozorjáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), розори́ти (rozorýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), плюндрува́ти (pljundruváty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), сплюндрува́ти (spljundruváty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), пусто́шити (pustóšyty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-ravage-en-verb-XM4YjJgf Disambiguation of 'to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something': 95 2 2 1 0
  2. (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack. Tags: transitive Translations (to pillage or plunder destructively): опустошавам (opustošavam) (Bulgarian), vyplenit [perfective] (Czech), plenit [imperfective] (Czech), plyndre (Danish), populor (Latin), пу́стоши (pústoši) (Macedonian), saquear (Portuguese), prăda (Romanian), yağmalamak (Turkish), yakıp yıkmak (Turkish)
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  3. (intransitive) To wreak destruction. Tags: intransitive Translations (to wreak destruction): ødelægge (Danish), hävittää (Finnish), arruinar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-ravage-en-verb-n9yTOdsV Disambiguation of 'to wreak destruction': 3 1 96 1 0
  4. (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-ravage-en-verb-bPbjd4Iz
  5. (slang) To rape. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-ravage-en-verb-CqX9ykQU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: rapid

Inflected forms

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        "To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pillage",
          "pillage#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "plunder",
          "plunder#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "destructively",
          "destructively"
        ],
        [
          "sack",
          "sack#English:_to_plunder"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To wreak destruction."
      ],
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          "wreak"
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          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To wreak destruction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have vigorous sexual intercourse with."
      ],
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        [
          "vigorous",
          "vigorous"
        ],
        [
          "intercourse",
          "intercourse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rape."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rape",
          "rape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To rape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
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    },
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ijtāḥa",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "اِجْتَاحَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḵaraba",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "خَرَبَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "dağıtmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "xaraba qoymaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "viran etmək"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "yixmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razrušavam",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "разрушавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "pustošit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zpustošit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zničit"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "ødelægge"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "verwoesten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "teisteren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "tuhota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "hävittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "ravager"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "estragar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "verwüsten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "zerstören"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "lumaínomai",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "λυμαίνομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "devastare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "distruggere"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "populor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "vastō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "dēvastō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "rúši",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "ру́ши"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "rázruši",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "ра́зруши"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "monhadem kardan",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "منهدم کردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dewastować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "niszczyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "pustoszyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "devastar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "opustošátʹ",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "опустоша́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "estragar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "härja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "ödelägga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "yıkmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "word": "tahrip etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spustóšuvaty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусто́шувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spustóšyty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусто́шити"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rozorjáty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "розоря́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rozorýty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "розори́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pljundruváty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "плюндрува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spljundruváty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сплюндрува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pustóšyty",
      "sense": "to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "пусто́шити"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "opustošavam",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "опустошавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyplenit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "plenit"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "plyndre"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "populor"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pústoši",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "пу́стоши"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "saquear"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "prăda"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "yağmalamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to pillage or plunder destructively",
      "word": "yakıp yıkmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to wreak destruction",
      "word": "ødelægge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to wreak destruction",
      "word": "hävittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to wreak destruction",
      "word": "arruinar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ravage"
}

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    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Occitan translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
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          "ref": "1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 2:",
          "text": "Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul!",
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          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "the ravages of time",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "the ravage of a lion",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 172:",
          "text": "The villages on either side of the Meyn, which were plentifully stored with corn and cattle, felt the ravages of an invading army.",
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        {
          "ref": "1835, Charles Lyell, chapter VIII, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, page 114:",
          "text": "[…]and another Swedish naturalist remarks, that so great are the powers of propagation of a single species, even of the smallest insects, that each can commit, when required, more ravages than the elephant.",
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razruha",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "разруха"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ødelæggelse"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "tuho"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "hävitys"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ravatge"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "estrago"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ravagiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estrago"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "hasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "yıkım"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "tahribat"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "grievous damage or havoc",
      "word": "tahrip"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "opustošenie",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "опустошение"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ødelæggelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "tuho"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "hävitys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Verwüstung"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "devastazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "devastação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ravagiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "devastare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "hasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "tahribat"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "tahrip"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "depredation or devastation",
      "word": "yıkım"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ravage"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.