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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rav·age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging ]  To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
 Already Caesar
 Has ravaged more than half the globe.   --Addison.
    His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.   --Macaulay.
 Syn: -- To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ravaged
      adj 1: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
             raped countryside" [syn: despoiled, pillaged, raped,
              sacked]
      2: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
         "a wasted landscape" [syn: blasted, desolate, desolated,
          devastated, ruined, wasted]