单词 | ravaged |
释义 | ravagedadj. That has been devastated or laid waste; severely damaged or scarred. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devastating > devastated barec1305 waste1338 desolatea1382 yheryȝeda1440 wastedc1440 ruined1600 vastate1616 devasted1632 ravaged1657 divast1677 populated1747 devastated1813 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea I. 207 Others returned into their own ravaged Country [Fr. en leur ancienue [sic] patri]. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 2 The shatter'd Forest, and the ravag'd Vale. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 74 The more southern, ravaged or torn up continents. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 45 The weight which Crime..Leaves in his flight from ravaged heart to heart. 1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile i. iv. §6 The scarp'd ravaged mountains..Were alive with the diamonded shy salamander. 1903 E. A. Vizetelly tr. E. Zola Truth iv. ii. 511 A faint smile appeared on Brother Gorgias's ravaged face. 1949 E. Blunden After Bombing 32 Few indeed prefer the barbed wire and the ravaged town, the plague-pit where themselves and myriads bleed, to the moon rising over the dreaming down. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 20 July 115/2 The Radiators are royalty in their ravaged hometown of New Orleans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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