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单词 ravaged
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Definition of ravaged in English:

ravaged

adjective ˈravɪdʒdˈravijd
  • 1Severely damaged; devastated.

    he hopes to visit his ravaged homeland
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The hardships of life inside mobile homes, which are being slowly ravaged by the salty sea air, seem to energise rather than depress the residents.
    • What they did was to start Women for Women International, a nonprofit group focused on empowering women whose countries were ravaged by war.
    • The small craft shivers within a pyrotechnic display of ravaged primary particles.
    • From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians.
    • A circular shape always either emerges from or sinks into a ravaged surface.
    • Their country too was ravaged by war, by 35 years of Japanese imperialist occupation.
    • Rain brought renewed fears of mudslides in areas ravaged by wildfires last year.
    • In those days, Europe was periodically ravaged by plagues.
    • There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley.
    • We are in a ravaged city, look out the window.
    • A pregnant woman told today of the devastating moment she returned home to find her York flat ravaged by fire.
    • Early 20 th-century photographs show a ravaged landscape.
    • Residents who did evacuate, like Patrick Pollard, struggled to move around the ravaged areas.
    • For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought.
    • Suddenly, Jack's trees (four in total) are ravaged by aphids.
    • Every few minutes I think of Cuba about to be ravaged by Hurrican Ivan.
    • Councillor Colin Tandy spoke about various river sites which have been completely ravaged by vandals.
    • Last year, on the back of two years of drought, Margaret's orchard was ravaged by severe frosts.
    • Mr Bush is expected to visit the ravaged Gulf Coast region, perhaps on Saturday.
    • In 1918 the world had been ravaged by the First World War.
    1. 1.1 Disfigured by age or illness.
      the ravaged faces of the elderly cancer victims
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Vassell's recent career has been ravaged by injury.
      • In his art Francis Bacon found beauty in unspeakable horror; his paintings of ravaged, bloodied bodies exposed our mortality.
      • For those whose bodies have been ravaged by the infection, the disease's effects are life long.
      • Police interviewed the mother and photographed the boy's ravaged body.
      • In Oshakati, northern Namibia, we are being ravaged by HIV.
      • One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do.
      • I pushed my famished, ravaged body onwards.
      • He lived in Glasgow, a city ravaged by the effects of that particular drug.
      • Many widows in developing countries, in areas of conflict or in communities ravaged by HIV / AIDS are young or middle-aged.
      • By his 40's, he had turned into a ravaged scarecrow, unrepentant about the trail of sorrow he had left behind.
      • His body had been ravaged by the drugs.
      • A population ravaged by disease retards economic development substantially, making it very difficult for the government to preserve domestic tranquillity.
      • In Cambodia, the lights of an operating theatre illuminate a body that has been ravaged by a landmine.
      • In 1925, Nome, Alaska, was ravaged by a diphtheria epidemic.
      • Great in the summer as protectors, they're even better into the fall and winter to revives hair that's been ravaged by surf and sun.
      • Keeping alive 55 year olds ravaged by a lifetime of poverty is much less cost effective than removing children from poverty.
      • Today at the supermarket I noticed a woman whose skin looked ravaged by the sun.
      • The face that stared back at her was ravaged, bewildered, numb.
      • Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis.
      • She had eight operations in less than a month to remove the ravaged tissue and prevent the disease from spreading further.
 
 

Definition of ravaged in US English:

ravaged

adjectiveˈravijd
  • 1Severely damaged; devastated.

    he hopes to visit his ravaged homeland
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every few minutes I think of Cuba about to be ravaged by Hurrican Ivan.
    • Suddenly, Jack's trees (four in total) are ravaged by aphids.
    • We are in a ravaged city, look out the window.
    • In those days, Europe was periodically ravaged by plagues.
    • For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought.
    • Councillor Colin Tandy spoke about various river sites which have been completely ravaged by vandals.
    • A circular shape always either emerges from or sinks into a ravaged surface.
    • From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians.
    • Their country too was ravaged by war, by 35 years of Japanese imperialist occupation.
    • Early 20 th-century photographs show a ravaged landscape.
    • Mr Bush is expected to visit the ravaged Gulf Coast region, perhaps on Saturday.
    • Residents who did evacuate, like Patrick Pollard, struggled to move around the ravaged areas.
    • What they did was to start Women for Women International, a nonprofit group focused on empowering women whose countries were ravaged by war.
    • There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley.
    • Last year, on the back of two years of drought, Margaret's orchard was ravaged by severe frosts.
    • The hardships of life inside mobile homes, which are being slowly ravaged by the salty sea air, seem to energise rather than depress the residents.
    • A pregnant woman told today of the devastating moment she returned home to find her York flat ravaged by fire.
    • In 1918 the world had been ravaged by the First World War.
    • Rain brought renewed fears of mudslides in areas ravaged by wildfires last year.
    • The small craft shivers within a pyrotechnic display of ravaged primary particles.
    1. 1.1 (of a person) disfigured by age or illness.
      the sad tales and ravaged faces of the cancer victims
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do.
      • Police interviewed the mother and photographed the boy's ravaged body.
      • Keeping alive 55 year olds ravaged by a lifetime of poverty is much less cost effective than removing children from poverty.
      • Many widows in developing countries, in areas of conflict or in communities ravaged by HIV / AIDS are young or middle-aged.
      • In Cambodia, the lights of an operating theatre illuminate a body that has been ravaged by a landmine.
      • She had eight operations in less than a month to remove the ravaged tissue and prevent the disease from spreading further.
      • A population ravaged by disease retards economic development substantially, making it very difficult for the government to preserve domestic tranquillity.
      • Today at the supermarket I noticed a woman whose skin looked ravaged by the sun.
      • He lived in Glasgow, a city ravaged by the effects of that particular drug.
      • Great in the summer as protectors, they're even better into the fall and winter to revives hair that's been ravaged by surf and sun.
      • In 1925, Nome, Alaska, was ravaged by a diphtheria epidemic.
      • Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis.
      • His body had been ravaged by the drugs.
      • The face that stared back at her was ravaged, bewildered, numb.
      • Vassell's recent career has been ravaged by injury.
      • For those whose bodies have been ravaged by the infection, the disease's effects are life long.
      • I pushed my famished, ravaged body onwards.
      • By his 40's, he had turned into a ravaged scarecrow, unrepentant about the trail of sorrow he had left behind.
      • In his art Francis Bacon found beauty in unspeakable horror; his paintings of ravaged, bloodied bodies exposed our mortality.
      • In Oshakati, northern Namibia, we are being ravaged by HIV.
 
 
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