Ravaged
[rævɪdʒd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Ravage
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- Poland was ravaged, and a mixed army of Poles and Germans was annihilated at the battle of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia in 1241. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Clennam had been poring late over his books and letters; for the waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office ravaged his time sorely. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The frontier counties all along the continent having been frequently ravaged by the enemy, and greatly impoverished, are able to pay very little tax. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The canton of Underwald, in Switzerland, is frequently ravaged by storms and inundations, and it is thereby exposed to extraordinary expenses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Shelby