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What is "war-torn"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
war-torn
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In 1941, Margaret E. Ray escaped war-torn France and landed in New York.
▪ The plan offered long-term aid to war-torn Europe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, nothing could be worse than the war-torn, economically deprived, famine stricken homelands which they left behind.
▪ He says the West has failed the war-torn republics, and must now intervene.
▪ Meanwhile, Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang.
▪ Outside in the war-torn street, Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line.
▪ Resources that might have been used to reconstruct a war-torn world went instead into new armaments.
▪ With sirens blaring and amber lights flashing, the squad cars slewed to a halt at the rear of a war-torn Cadillac.
Wiktionary
war-torn

a. extensively damaged as the result of war. alt. extensively damaged as the result of war.

WordNet
war-torn

adj. laid waste by war [syn: war-worn]

Usage examples of "war-torn".

Pentagon, this extraordinary group of highly trained specialists had been secretly dispatched to war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, in August 1993.

Unaware of his torment, Derae also experienced the surge of joy when her questing spirit found Parmenion alive, and now her soul flew high above the war-torn land of Achaea, tracing the course of the Gulf as it ran east towards the white-walled city of Korinthos.

The suits on Sky's Edge had been rare imports, purchased from Ultra traders who made stopover around the war-torn planet.

By order of the Lylmik Supervisors, the commemoration was to be deliberately conspicuous, reminding the populace of this war-torn Earth nation of a truth they had once championed — that human beings were not alone in the starry universe.

And nobody was shooting at you: instead of a war-torn city, the world in the Eidolon goggles was a sort of playroom with toys, like a bouncing ball you could toss or bat around, and a magic mushroom that, if you poked at it, made violets and dandelions sprout up out of the floor.

Lady Danvers stated, pushing the girl back into the war-torn building.

With NATO currently enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia, an attack by submarine had struck Khan as the ideal way to get his revenge on Hunyadi without having to fight his way through contested airspace or war-torn terrain.