All 6 Uses
ravage
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Mary Ellen's sisters, Marge and Jean, tried to fill the vacuum left by the ravaged little girl.†
Chpt 2. *ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- Not toward Europe as he had hoped, to help avenge his ravaged Czech homeland, but in the opposite direction: He joined the great swarm of young American men hastily assembled, trained, armed, and rushed west to stem the shocking Japanese onslaught in the Pacific.†
Chpt 4.
- The tall, dignified captain was a good deal more ravaged than he appeared.†
Chpt 13.
- The boys, so recently returned from battle, had not yet recovered from its ravages.†
Chpt 16.ravages = destroys or damages
- Belle—haunted Belle, ravaged Belle, tireless, fixated, unrelenting Belle—had been right all along.†
Chpt 17.ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- And the ravages of drink and hard living were etched on Ira's fleshy face.†
Chpt 17.ravages = destroys or damages
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.