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In a moment, we have gone from being ravaged to being lucky.
Contrarily, the singer's voice has been ravaged to a Tom Waits-style croak.
How long will it take for an ecosystem this ravaged to be "restored and made whole" as Obama's interior secretary has pledged to do?
If you worked at your best when mentally ravaged to the point of collapse, Steadman would discover, then Hunter Thompson's was a useful number to have in your contacts book.
At ATV, Compact had not escaped the notice of Lew Grade, whose Emergency - Ward 10 had lately been ravaged to yield one of the newly fashionable one-hour drama series.
The jeans, like the Current/Elliott Boyfriend style favored by starlets caught Starbucking in daylight ($210), have been expertly ravaged to appear as if they have endured many train-hoppings and boating accidents but are now safe at the family vacation home, tanned and comfy, reading Doris Lessing and responsibly refusing their third glass of wine.
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Contributing to the debate, Stanbury (2005) attribute the complexity of the term waste to its genesis, which they traced to the Latin word uastus and which evinces several meanings; to ravage, to leave desolate or cultivate.
"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace," wrote the Roman historian Tacitus.
What is needed, of course, is for the drug taker and the ravaged society to matter to us.
But someday the pediatric surgeon may have a way to restore ravaged intestines thanks to his work growing the organ in the lab.
To ravage is to destroy or severely damage something.
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