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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

ravaged
    adj 1: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence;
           "the raped countryside" [syn: despoiled, pillaged,
           raped, ravaged, sacked]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [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, n.]
   To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit
   havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
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         Already Caesar
         Has ravaged more than half the globe.    --Addison.
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         His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate;
        desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
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Thesaurus Results for Ravaged:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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