Barren and Ravaged

Barren

Barren adjective - Producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation.

Ravaged and barren are semantically related in destroyed topic. In some cases you can use "Ravaged" instead an adjective "Barren".

Nearby Words: barrenness, barrenly

Ravaged

Ravaged adjective - Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.

Barren and ravaged are semantically related in destroyed topic. Sometimes you can use "Barren" instead an adjective "Ravaged".

Nearby Words: ravage, ravaging

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  • Role Play / re DU Xforum Its setting is based on a post apocalyptic Earth in the year 2864, where civilization now resides in great domed cities to protect them from barren, radioactive landscapes long since ravaged by war.
  • Mordor The Anderfels has been ravaged by three of the Blights which have started in the area, leaving most of the landscape scarred and barren as a result, with roving bands of Darkspawn commonly seen above ground even between Blights.
    Source: Mordor
  • Single-Biome Planet Armored Trooper VOTOMS averted this with planet Melkia, of which we see deserts, a barren wasteland ravaged by acid rain (the outskirts of Uoodo) and a Vietnam-esque lanscape of lush tropical jungles (Kingdom of Kummen).
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