war-ravaged
English
Adjective
war-ravaged (comparative more war-ravaged, superlative most war-ravaged)
- Synonym of war-torn.
- 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:
- The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.
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- “war-ravaged”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
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