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ravage
English
Etymology
From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (harpáz?, “to seize”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æv?d?/
Verb
ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)
- (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
- (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
Related terms
- rapid
Translations
Noun
ravage (plural ravages)
- Grievous damage or havoc.
- Depredation or devastation
- the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time
Translations
Further reading
- ravage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ravage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ra??va?.??/
- Hyphenation: ra?va?ge
- Rhymes: -a???
Noun
ravage f (plural ravages)
- havoc, damage
Anagrams
- gevaar
French
Etymology
From ravine (“rush of water”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.va?/
Noun
ravage m (plural ravages)
- singular of ravages
- (archaic) The act of laying waste.
Verb
ravage
- first-person singular present indicative of ravager
- third-person singular present indicative of ravager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
- second-person singular imperative of ravager
Further reading
- “ravage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gavera
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fleece
English
Etymology
From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English fl?os, fl?es, fl?s, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /fli?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
Noun
fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)
- (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
- (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
- (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
- (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Derived terms
- fleeceless
- fleecewear
- fleece wool
- fleecy
- Golden Fleece
Translations
Verb
fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)
- (transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
- (transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.
Translations
See also
- (con): nickel and dime
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English fleece.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fli?si/, [?fli?s?i]
- IPA(key): /?fli?s/, [?fli?s?] (often in compound terms)
Noun
fleece
- Alternative spelling of fliisi
Usage notes
- As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends "nalle" - category in writing, as shown above, but in speech the declension usually follows "risti" -category, see the declension table for fliisi.
Declension
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