ravaged — [ rævıdʒd ] suffix MAINLY JOURNALISM used with some nouns to make adjectives meaning destroyed or badly damaged by something: the earthquake ravaged island a war ravaged country … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
ravaged — un·ravaged; … English syllables
-ravaged — a word part indicating destruction by the circumstances specified, as bushfire ravaged landscape …
ravaged — Synonyms and related words: ablative, ausgespielt, bankrupt, beset, biodegradable, blasted, blighted, blown, broken, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated, dilapidated, disintegrable,… … Moby Thesaurus
ravaged — adj. pillaged; desolated; ruined; that has been robbed and destroyed by force and violence rav·age || rævɪdÊ’ n. destruction, ruin, devastation v. rob, plunder, pillage; destroy, ruin, demolish … English contemporary dictionary
ravaged — adjective having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence the raped countryside • Syn: ↑despoiled, ↑pillaged, ↑raped, ↑sacked • Similar to: ↑destroyed … Useful english dictionary
blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted — destroyed destroyed adj. 1. p. p. of {destroy}. [Narrower terms: {annihilated, exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted}; {blighted, spoilt}; {blotted out, obliterate, obliterated};… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
despoiled pillaged raped ravaged sacked — destroyed destroyed adj. 1. p. p. of {destroy}. [Narrower terms: {annihilated, exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted}; {blighted, spoilt}; {blotted out, obliterate, obliterated};… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
war-ravaged — adj. War ravaged is used with these nouns: ↑country … Collocations dictionary
war-ravaged — adj. destroyed by war, ruined and destroyed by force and violence of war … English contemporary dictionary
