ravined

American  

[ruh-veend] / rəˈvind /

adjective

1. marked or furrowed with ravines.

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Etymology

Origin of ravined

First recorded in 1850–55; ravine + -ed ³

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Example Sentences

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ravined

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

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

The spot was like a little ravined, hillocky wilderness of sterile rocks, draped with rude vegetation, clinging creepers that twined and twisted through every crevice like green serpents.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

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

At sixty-two she looked like a centenarian; her bold, insolent face was ravined, as it were, by her stormy life, and the glow of her sun-like hair had been extinguished by a shower of ashes.

From Fruitfulness by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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