Verb (used with object) : a face ravaged by grief. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the ravages of war. From Dictionary.com.
The softness in his voice at the mention of her name ravaged Anne. From Wordnik.com. [Rekindled]
Towns and sities ravaged from the the Civil War to our Revolution to Pearl Harbor. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine] Reference
And, whatever progress has been made, war-ravaged is still an apt description of Bosnia-Herzegovina. From Wordnik.com. [The Bosnian Trojan Horse] Reference
Is "ravaged" officially in the SportsWord Hall of Fame?. From Wordnik.com. [Colts Have Aged but Still Have Bite] Reference
"What better way to describe the state than with the word 'ravaged'?". From Wordnik.com. [Dahling, you look ravaging tonight] Reference
Then the story turns to the measles epidemic that has "ravaged" the country. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Bob Sears: What to Do About All These Non-Vaccinating Families] Reference
Pakistan's cooperation with the United States, he said, has "ravaged" its economy and social fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Document leak part of U.S. plot, says Pakistani ex-general with ties to Taliban] Reference
That kind of ravaged quartier you can find where i live, in Salgótarján too. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
We were going inside to see bones "ravaged" by syphilis, so it only made sense to discuss this in the meantime. From Wordnik.com. [Blogtimore, Hon] Reference
"ravaged" or whatever word his unconscious mind had used to pigeonhole the horror that had been inflicted on his only daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
How was it to grow up in a country ravaged by war?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Word: Helene Faussart] Reference
Many of them face a ravaged public health-care sector. From Wordnik.com. [A Victory--And A New War] Reference
Four-digit inflation ravaged the spending power of workers. From Wordnik.com. [TURNING THE CLOCK BACK TO CHAOS?] Reference
Nearly 500 people died in the 1999 war that ravaged this place. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers Of Drift] Reference
That is still evident in the streets of ravaged Palestinian towns. From Wordnik.com. [Life After Arafat] Reference
His wife, Silda, stood by his side, looking ravaged but dignified. From Wordnik.com. [His Dark Journey] Reference
Now Tata of India is bidding for the network built by scandal-ravaged Tyco. From Wordnik.com. [PHONE POWER] Reference
The basic question is whether their ravaged system can now generate growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Gathering Soviet Storm] Reference
Floods and tornadoes also ravaged the state during an unusually harsh spring. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Burst of Innovative Global Giving Pays Off] Reference
He's still quartered in a dingy hotel room in the war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu. From Wordnik.com. [Not Even Any Pens To Push] Reference
Hot pink tents, 150 of them, have sprung up around the Katrina-ravaged Lower 9th Ward. From Wordnik.com. [Little Pink Houses] Reference
If there's a bright spot in quake-ravaged Kashmir, Lt.Col. Chiragh Haider has glimpsed it. From Wordnik.com. [Aftershocks In Kashmir] Reference
St. James R-1 School District in meth-ravaged Missouri was the first to try it out this fall. From Wordnik.com. [My Mother the Narc] Reference
Last fall she organized a reseeding project at a wilderness area that had been ravaged by fire. From Wordnik.com. [Saving The Earth? Maybe She Can Squeeze It In Nex] Reference
In places ravaged by poverty, war, oppression, tyranny and fanaticism, the duality is only magnified. From Wordnik.com. [Tuning In, Turning On] Reference
U.S. officials point out that the Pakistani terrain is much tougher to negotiate than tsunami-ravaged East Asia. From Wordnik.com. [One Crisis Too Many?] Reference
For war-ravaged Berliners, the metropolis was a more urgent fantasy: make order out of chaos, redeem national pride. From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
It hasn't been determined precisely how many factories succumbed to the flooding that ravaged southern China last week. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Clouds Over The Delta] Reference
The bacteria had ravaged the children's bodies; they died of complications such as organ failure and cardiovascular collapse. From Wordnik.com. [A Deadly Strain Of Staph] Reference
And even money not spent may ultimately help the economy if it permits households to repay debt or replenish ravaged savings. From Wordnik.com. [The Blinders Of Politics] Reference
Do American black elites have a particular duty to lead the battle for assistance to the AIDS-ravaged souls of the sub-Sahara?. From Wordnik.com. [A Cause That Crosses The Color Line] Reference
Actually, it's more like tristeza da laranja ( "the orange's sorrow"), a virus that ravaged the Brazilian countryside in the 1940s. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis In The Cupboard] Reference
And he uses it eagerly, despite family protestations that his lungs have been ravaged by pneumonia and that he relies on an oxygen tank. From Wordnik.com. [The Author Nobody's Met] Reference
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