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Definition: Ravaged |
RavagedAdjective1. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside". 2. Made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ravaged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: RavagedSynonyms: blasted (adj), desolate (adj), desolated (adj), despoiled (adj), devastated (adj), pillaged (adj), raped (adj), ruined (adj), sacked (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ravaged |
| Specialty definitions using "ravaged": Chinese Gordon ♦ Dragon Slayers ♦ Gargouille ♦ Martha ♦ Red Cross Knight ♦ tope. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Down to Earth Part II: The Ravaged Elements (1973) Ravaged (2003) Ravaged! (1990) Ravaged Rivalry (1990) | |
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| "Hurricane Ravaged Pier" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Hurricane damaged pier. Venice, Florida, U.S.A." |
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US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. (reference) |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Little wells of tea lay here and there on the board and a knife with a broken ivory handle was stuck through the pith of a ravaged turnover |
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Economic History | Suriname | In response, the army ravaged villages and killed suspected Brunswijk supporters. (references) |
Angola | The 26-year long civil war has ravaged the country's political and social institutions. (references) | |
Rwanda | The RPF took Kigali on July 4, 1994, and the war ended on July 16, 1994. The RPF took control of a country ravaged by war and genocide. (references) | |
Political Economy | East Timor | East Timor made significant progress in establishing its institutions of democracy and governance in preparation for full independence which is scheduled for May 20, 2002; however, during its second year of independence from Indonesia, reconstruction and recovery from the September 1999 violence that ravaged the territory was a central focus of activity, and numerous problems remained. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Standing in this same place a third of a century ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a Nation ravaged by depression and gripped in fear. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Our economy was ravaged by inflation--inflation that was plunging us into the worse recession in four decades. |
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| "Ravaged" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 37.76% of the time. "Ravaged" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.76% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35.66% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.57% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Total | 100.00% | 143 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ravaged": blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted ♦ despoiled pillaged raped ravaged sacked ♦ fire ravaged ♦ ravaged by disease. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ravaged": ravaged-looking. | |
Ending with "ravaged": fire-ravaged, injury-ravaged, war-ravaged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ravaged | 13 |
girl ravaged | 5 |
bride ravaged | 3 |
ravaged teen | 2 |
pussy ravaged | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ravaged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 兵連禍結 (ravaged by successive wars, war-ridden, war-torn). (various references) | |
French | ravagé. (various references) | |
German | verwüstete (desolated, devastated). (various references) | |
Greek | καταστραμμένος, ρημαγμένος (run down). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tönkretett (devastated, undone), lepusztult (raunchy, sleazo, sleazy), feldúlt (unstrung, waste, wasted). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avagedray.(various references) | |
Russian | разорять разоренный (decimated). (various references) | |
Swedish | eldhärjad (fire ravaged). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vastata. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "ravaged": stravaged. (additional references) | |
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"Ravaged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avvago, Rabaneda, Rahaga, Rataseed, ravag, ravaled, ravbaged, Ravebeek, ravege, refaged, Rivage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ravaged" (pronounced ra"vijd) |
| 5 | -a" v i j d | savaged. |
| 4 | -v i j d | salvaged. |
| 3 | -i j d | acknowledged, advantaged, averaged, bandaged, disadvantaged, leveraged, disparaged, encouraged, envisaged, hemorrhaged, mismanaged, mortgaged, packaged, pillaged, presaged, repackaged, unmanaged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-v" | |
-1 letter: graved, ravage. | |
-2 letters: adage, agave, drave, grade, grave, raged, raved. | |
-3 letters: agar, aged, ager, area, aver, dare, dear, deva, drag, dreg, egad, gaed, gave, gear, grad, raga, rage, rave, read, vara, vera. | |
-4 letters: aga, age, are, ava, ave, dag, dev, ear, era, erg, gad, gae, gar, ged, rad, rag, red, reg, rev, var, veg. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-v" | |
+1 letter: averaged, gravidae. | |
+2 letters: graveyard, stravaged. | |
+3 letters: aggravated, graveyards, gravitated, stravaiged, variegated. | |
+4 letters: degradative, overmanaged. | |
+5 letters: extravagated, overarranged, overpackaged, revalidating. | |
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