ravined

[ ruh-veend ]

adjective

1. marked or furrowed with ravines.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ravined¹

First recorded in 1850–55; ravine + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The famous mines of Riosa are situated in a hollow between two low ranges of hills, the spurs of a great mountain-chain, and are surrounded on all sides by broken ground, knolls and downs of no great height, but scarred and ravined in such a way as to look peculiarly barren and melancholy.

From Project Gutenberg

Governments call them bandits, but they consider themselves rebels, hold sway in an 8,000-sq.-mi. deeply ravined area south of New Delhi.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the deeply ravined semijungle of Hawaii's Koolau Mountains, some 4,500 G.I.s recently pretended that they had been asked to help a Southeast Asian nation beat back insurgents and bolster a friendly government.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far and wide They ravined, and the laws of God and man Despised alike.

From Project Gutenberg

His political exhortations began and ended like the howl of a blood-hound for murder; or, if a wolf could have written a journal, the gaunt and famished wretch could not have ravined more eagerly for slaughter.

From Project Gutenberg