ravaged Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
   ravage; harry.
   
2. verb cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
   desolate; devastate; scourge; lay waste to; ravage; waste.
   
   • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
3. adjective satellite having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
   despoiled; sacked; pillaged; raped.
   
   • the raped countryside

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