Both Uses
ravage
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
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- 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) 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.