The word "ravages" is correct and usable in written English.
It means the destructive effects or damage caused by something. Here is an example of how it can be used in a sentence: "The hurricane left behind a trail of destruction, causing widespread ravages to the coastal communities."
Wolves, he tells us, "frequently commit prodigious ravages".
This is seen as a crunch conference, because it will lay out the world's response to climate change for decades to come, and could determine whether the world avoids the worst ravages of global warming, which are already being felt.
A new version by Ed Thomas, the show features nine Welsh actors playing the role of Mother Courage, a woman who is determined to turn a profit from war but who learns the hard way that she can't keep her own children safe from its ravages.
He got his landmark victory in July, scrapping the carbon price after successfully framing the issue as one of household power bills rather than how Australia must avoid the worst ravages of climate change.
Yet, despite the ravages of time, changing customs, vicissitudes of fashion, the Victorian garden cemetery still survives in its various forms, one of the great legacies of the 19th century.
But it is not the tourists who are responsible for the Mayo town being fireproofed from the worst ravages of Ireland's recession.
The report observed that unchecked development would also expose more people and assets to the ravages of climate change.
At least you're not in this unwinnable race against the ravages of time.
"We don't all die young to save our spark from the ravages of time," they sing, in as near-perfect harmony as you could hope to find, "but the first and last to leave their mark someday become the traveling kind".
WWF Australia, the Australian Marine Conservation Society and Greenpeace are all engaged in campaigns to "save the reef" from the ravages of climate change and the construction of multi-billion dollar port facilities to ship coal and gas around the world.
It is true, no doubt, that the ravages of vodka and absinthe are worse than those of the spirits consumed in this country, but the difference between our attitude and that of France and Russia is due rather to the intensity with which they are forced to realise the war.
