Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
(2) - Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.

(1) - Rave (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
(2) - Rave (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
(3) - Rave (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
(4) - Rave (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
(5) - Rave (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(6) - Rave () imp. of Rive.

(1) - Ravel (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
(2) - Ravel (v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
(3) - Ravel (v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
(4) - Ravel (v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
(5) - Ravel (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
(6) - Ravel (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.

(1) - Raveler (n.) One who ravels.