Ravage usually appears without a following preposition or in passive patterns such as ravaged by something.
Use ravage something for direct objects and be ravaged by for the cause of damage. Ravage with is sometimes used for the instrument or harmful thing. Ravage from, ravage on, and ravage through are generally not standard combinations after the verb.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Ravage commonly takes a direct object without a preposition.
In passive sentences, by introduces the damaging force.
With can introduce the destructive condition or substance, especially in formal writing.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Use by in passive sentences or no preposition with a direct object.
✕ The town was ravaged from the cyclone. ✓ The town was ravaged by the cyclone.Ravage does not normally take on.
✕ The fire ravaged on the island. ✓ The fire ravaged the island.Through usually describes movement in the sentence, not a complement of ravage.
✕ The disease ravaged through the country. ✓ The disease ravaged the country.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. Ravage commonly takes a direct object, as in ravage the city.
Yes. By normally introduces the force or event that caused the damage.
Not usually as a fixed verb pattern. Use ravage something instead.
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