Both Uses of
ravage
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- The irony, of course, is that no sentence imposed by a court for homicide could trump the one that's ravaged me in prison.†
*ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- The entire left side of Grace Bourne's face was ravaged and pitted, a lava flow of skin that had been stretched and sewed to cover an extensive burn.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(ravage) to destroy or damage; or damaging effects
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, ravage can reference pillaging or plundering as is done by an invading army that takes things of value and destroys what is left.