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ravaged

adjective as in infested

adjective as in ruined

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For Xido, spending time in war-ravaged Angola felt strangely familiar.

The journey began well, as Washington managed to collect some rent from war-ravaged tenants in Cumberland.

Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in first few weeks of October 1793.

That lasts about five years, in which time the place has been altered, developed, and ravaged just enough to make you mad.

Ten years ago, a population of gorillas in Central Africa was ravaged by the deadly virus.

Just as he was starting, Bruce came upon him, laid siege to the place where he was, and ravaged his country.

About Christmas they again ravaged Northumberland, and let off Cumberland till midsummer day next year for the sum of 600 marks.

And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt, in the hundred and forty- third year, he returned and went up against Israel.

She ravaged the newspapers; they never were more bare of reference to consecrated labours.

On the road the inoffensive inhabitants were pillaged, ravaged and massacred to the cry of 'God wills it!'

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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