Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ravaged"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravaged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Ravaging}.] [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.
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; plunger; sack; spoil; devastate;
desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ravaged
adj 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}]
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