ravaged
ra vijd
- v make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- v cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- s having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
- Thousands of years after Tuberculosis ravaged ancient cultures stretching from Greece to Egypt, more than a century after the bacillus responsible for the disease was first .
- The measure was intended to deter violence in the kind of gun-ravaged neighborhoods he was seeking to represent.
- But they came to suspect that an ingredient in the diet drug had ravaged her liver, which had all but shut down.