ravages of time
Gradual decay accumulates
The ravages of time are the cumulative damage that time inflicts on things—the wearing down, decay, and deterioration that comes with age.
Buildings show the ravages of time through crumbling facades; faces show them through wrinkles and sagging skin.
The phrase treats time as a destructive force: The painting had suffered the ravages of time.
Though sometimes used literally, it often carries a note of melancholy or resignation about mortality and impermanence.
- ticking clockClock making sound
- dustFine settled particles
- dust to dustBurial phrase acknowledging decomposition
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- crumbling wallsStructures breaking into pieces
vestiges · erosion · impermanence · senescence · relics · fallen empire · mortality · decay · anachronism · transience · withered · wrinkled skin · old age · weathering · memento mori · forgottenness · faded · yellowed pages
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
ravages of timepreservation
Maintaining something's condition
timelessness · eternal youth · immortality · agelessness · conservation
ravages of timerestoration
Returning something to condition
rejuvenation · renewal · regeneration · revitalization · time heals all wounds
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