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)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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More worryingly, she was getting frequent thoughts of suicide as the images of the fire-ravaged building kept playing in her mind.
Dawn Editorials —
Vicarious trauma
— 2026-03-28
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Or our own war-ravaged peripheries.
Dawn Editorials —
Digitalised war
— 2026-03-27
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Access to copper, gold and other mineral exploration projects in already conflict-ravaged Balochistan and KP?
Dawn Editorials —
Oil, rock, crypto
— 2026-01-16
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In fact, floods of biblical proportions have ravaged both sides of the fence.
Dawn Editorials —
Learning from floods
— 2025-11-04
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It seems both parties were eager to take credit from flood-ravaged families, and each thought their way of doing it would secure their individual political interests.
Dawn Editorials —
Family matters
— 2025-10-18
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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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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