RAVAGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ravaged mean? 

• RAVAGED (adjective)
  The adjective RAVAGED has 1 sense:

1. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence

  Familiarity information: RAVAGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAVAGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence

Synonyms:

despoiled; pillaged; raped; ravaged; sacked

Context example:

the raped countryside

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

Then how had he been ravaged by the sun?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Not in a day nor a generation were the ravaged sheepfolds to be forgotten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I ravaged Miss Mills's work-box for a smelling-bottle, and in my agony of mind applied an ivory needle-case instead, and dropped all the needles over Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now the richer fields of the North have absorbed the trade, and nothing save these ravaged groves and great scars in the earth show the work of the past.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks, including the 2013-2016 epidemic that ravaged West Africa and the 2018 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlight the need for licensed treatments for this often-deadly disease.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

While he lay in the bush, recovering from his fright and peering fearfully out, the mother-ptarmigan on the other side of the open space fluttered out of the ravaged nest.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I could certainly eat you alive," Martin said, in turn running insolent eyes over the other's disease-ravaged frame.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)