ravaged
IPA: rˈævɪdʒd
adjective
- having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
- made uninhabitable
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Examples of "ravaged" in Sentences
- He then ravaged the land.
- European winegrape crop ravaged by bad weather.
- The softness in his voice at the mention of her name ravaged Anne.
- The Yamasee War of 1715 1717 ravaged the backcountry of the colony.
- The Marathas ravaged the country and brought untold miseries to the people.
- Towns and sities ravaged from the the Civil War to our Revolution to Pearl Harbor.
- And, whatever progress has been made, war-ravaged is still an apt description of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- She said she was stunned to receive an email, purporting to be from Cook, which mocked her use of the phrase "ravaged with it" to describe her condition.
- In New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, free-market cheerleaders called the ravaged city a “green field” for experimenting with privatized public education.
- His noble face is blackened with soot and ash, his powerful body stooped with exhaustion, his expression ravaged with grief, for those still burning embers hold within their embrace the bodies of his friends and comrades, perhaps the body of his lady wife. "
- On one hand, pro cyclists’ bodies are absolutely ravaged from the continual onslaught of training, racing, and seemingly endless travel at the end of a season, so the prospect of consecutive weeks without mandatory time on the bike is novel and therefore welcomed with open arms and often a running leap onto the couch.
- Away from the army lines and great centers of cities, the suffering was dreadful; impressments stripped the impoverished people; conscription turned smiling fields into desert wastes; fire and sword ravaged many districts; and the few who could raise the great bundle of paper necessary to buy a meal, scarce knew where to turn in the general desolation, to procure it even then.