| ravage | (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: depredation |
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| (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: harry |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste |
| ravaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, raped, sacked |
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| ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
| rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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| (noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: gush |
| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, spout |
| (verb) participate in an all-night techno dance party | - |
| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| ravel | (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, run |
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| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, tangle |
| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel out, unravel |
| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| raven | (noun) large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail | Synonyms: Corvus corax |
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| (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, pig |
| (verb) feed greedily | - |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, prey |
| (verb) obtain or seize by violence | - |
| ravenala | (noun) giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers | Synonyms: Ravenala madagascariensis, traveler's tree, traveller's tree |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
| ravenously | (adverb) in the manner of someone who is very hungry | Synonyms: hungrily |
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| ravenousness | (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, voraciousness, voracity |
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| raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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| (noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
| ravigote | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigotte |
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| ravigotte | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigote |
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| ravine | (noun) a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) | - |
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| raving | (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving mad, wild |
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| (noun) declaiming wildly | - |
| (adverb) in a raving manner | Synonyms: ravingly |
| ravingly | (adverb) in a raving manner | Synonyms: raving |
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| ravioli | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: cappelletti |
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| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| ravisher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, violator |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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| ravishingly | (adverb) in a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree | - |
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| ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |