 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ravaged
adjective
1: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
raped countryside" [syn: {despoiled}, {pillaged}, {raped},
{sacked}]
2: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
"a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {desolated},
{devastated}, {ruined}, {wasted}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ravage \Rav"age\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ravaged}
(r[a^]v"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ravaging}
(r[a^]v"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. ravager. See {Ravage}, noun]
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit
havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Already C[ae]sar
Has ravaged more than half the globe. --Addison.
His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate;
desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "ravaged":
ablative, ausgespielt, bankrupt, beset, biodegradable, blasted,
blighted, blown, broken, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing,
degradable, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated,
dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating,
disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, done for, done in,
down-and-out, drawn, erosive, fallen, finished, flyblown, frowsty,
frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gone to pot, grubby, haggard, hollow-eyed,
in ruins, infested, irremediable, kaput, lousy, maggoty, mildewed,
moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, overthrown, pedicular,
pediculous, plagued, ratty, resolvent, ruined, ruinous, separative,
smutted, smutty, solvent, spoiled, teeming, tired-eyed,
tired-faced, tired-looking, undone, wan, wasted, weary-looking,
weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, wrecked
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