ravage

Noun

• (usually plural) a destructive action
  • the ravages of time
    
  • the depredations of age and disease
    

Verb

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
    

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  depredation , lay waste to , waste , devastate , desolate , scourge , harry