ravaged
past simple and past participle ofravage
| 单词 | ravaged |
| 释义 | ravaged past simple and past participle ofravage ravage verb[Toften passive] uk/ˈræv.ɪdʒ/us/ˈræv.ɪdʒ/tocausegreatdamageto something: Theareahas been ravaged bydrought/floods/war. Damaging and spoiling
Examplesofravagedravaged In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The population was in retreat, halved from 1931, and the economy wasravaged. From theCambridge English Corpus Sometimes a comparatively large area was entirely unvisited, while all the surrounding country wasravaged. From theCambridge English Corpus Inmate mortality in the 1,700 or so penal institutions had increased in the last years of the war and many prisoners wereravagedby disease. From theCambridge English Corpus The government's responses to these conflicts, and its effectiveness in addressing the ethno-political conflicts that haveravagedthe country in the past three years, are addressed in the next section. From theCambridge English Corpus I am the representative of a constituency that has beenravagedby gravel pits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Theseravagedareas are deserts, so utterly dead and barren and forgotten. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nuisance and danger; there is also enormous damage to animal and plant life, as anyone who visits areasravagedby fires can see. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a strategy should also provide special care for stricken regions, such hills and mountainsravagedby fire. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English Then, as for hundreds of years previously, hand-digging was the norm, but industrialisation of the process hasravagedthe land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They will be returning to aravagedcountry, and will encounter the danger of stepping on land mines as well as massive problems of reconstruction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Now it isravagedby civil war and children are starving. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Before then the country wasravagedby a long and bitter civil war in which many thousands of people of all races lost their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The textile and clothing industries are extremely important to many communities that areravagedby high unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Millions of people are denied access to humanitarian or development assistance because they live in countries that areravagedby conflict. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I represent a community that has beenravagedby racism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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