war-torn

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See also: wartorn, and war torn

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war-torn (comparative more war-torn, superlative most war-torn)

  1. Extensively damaged as a result of war.
    Synonym: war-ravaged
    • 2021 August 11, Richard Foster, “A century of railway politics”, in RAIL, number 937, page 42:
      The new government also had big plans for rejuvenating Britain's war-torn economy.
    • 2023 January 30, Mei-chu Huang, Jonathan Chin, “Clinic raises money for Ukraine”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2023, Taiwan News, page 3‎:
      A traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Changhua County has raised NT$555,000 in a two-day campaign drive to buy medical supplies, humanitarian aid materials and an ambulance for war-torn Ukraine.

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