ravaged

[rav-ijd]

adjective

1. ruinously damaged or marred.

   After the war they were faced with a ravaged landscape and a deeply scarred population.

   Her heart contracted with pity when she saw the ravaged face and red, swollen eyes of her friend.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of ravage.

Other Word Forms

• unravaged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ravaged¹

First recorded in 1650–60; ravage ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; ravage ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

Athens beat Sparta at sea, Sparta ravaged Athenian land; then each was forced to fight on the other’s turf.

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Countries once regularly ravaged by famine, such as Russia, China and India, are no longer plagued as they had been.

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The country has been ravaged by civil war since the February 2021 coup.

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L.A.’s warring gangs had just struck a truce following a resurgence in the type of street violence that Basheer called a “cancer,” and as both drugs and drug-war-era law enforcement practices ravaged the Black community.

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Fung-wong is expected to make landfall late Sunday as a super typhoon, and comes just days after Typhoon Kalmaegi ravaged the country.

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Related Words

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• shattered 
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