Vocabulary
Ravaged
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
severely damaged; devastated.
Urdu meaning
تباہ کرنا، غارت کرنا، لوٹنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- PAKISTAN has been ravaged by riverine and pluvial floods this monsoon season too.
- Are they visiting their flood-ravaged constituencies?
- HE current wave of floods has ravaged vast tracts of farmland across the plains of central Punjab.
- Three of those instances were in the summer of 1959, when rains ravaged Jammu for months on end and the water coursed through the western rivers with relentless ferocity.
- The fact that environmental landscapes across the subcontinent are being ravaged to no end is arguably the most obvious trigger for an alternative politics to transcend theregressive logics of colonial statecraft.
Synonyms
lay waste, devastate, ruin, leave in ruins, destroy
Antonyms
assist, build, construct
Curator example
“he hopes to visit his ravaged homeland”
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