ravager

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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves?the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first of these animals is believed to have been a burrowing creature, perhaps a mole; the second, from the meaning of its name, "ravager of fields," is thought to have been a mouse.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

The Squire was the only man, at first, who durst bid defiance to the general ravager.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various

But this unaccountable gray ravager 108 was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir