Synonyms:
despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked
Meaning: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
Usage examples
She was already old, with a ravaged countenance and a physique curiously hard and stiff.
He also ravaged many other places in Italy, and then, loaded with wealth, withdrew to Africa.
The rank woods were full of malaria, and singular epidemics from time to time ravaged the settlements.
The girl's reply, accompanied by a pretty inclination of her head toward the Frenchman, was lost in the accents of the first speaker--a strong and sonorous voice, in strange contrast with his ravaged appearance and distressing cough.
Though the miner did everything to destroy the fur trade--started fires which ravaged the hunter's forest haunts, put up saloons which demoralized the Indians, built wagon-roads where aforetime wandered only the shy creatures of the wilds--though the miner heralded the doom of the fur trade--yet with an unvarying courtesy, from Fort Garry to the Rockies, the Hudson's Bay men helped the Overlanders.