ravined
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ravined
Example Sentences
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In the deeply ravined semijungle of Hawaii's Koolau Mountains, some 4,500 G.I.s recently pretended that they had been asked to help a Southeast Asian nation beat back insurgents and bolster a friendly government.
From Time Magazine Archive
Governments call them bandits, but they consider themselves rebels, hold sway in an 8,000-sq.-mi. deeply ravined area south of New Delhi.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hillsides are deeply ravined and the slopes covered with a dense growth of tussock, which renders progress uncertain and laborious.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
They ravined in rings like iniquitous things; they gulped down the Green and the Blue.
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
All the coast is abrupt, ravined, irregular—curiously breached and fissured.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
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