battle-scarred landscape
- noun
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paisaje marcado por la batalla
- The battle-scarred landscape stretched for miles, with craters and broken trees as far as the eye could see.
Examples
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After years of fighting, villages were restored but the battle-scarred landscape still bore the wounds of war.
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Historians visited the battle-scarred landscape to study the effects of the decades-long conflict.
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The battle-scarred landscape told a story of resilience.
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After the war, the battle-scarred landscape was a haunting reminder.
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After years of fighting, the battle-scarred landscape still bore the visible marks of conflict.
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The battle-scarred landscape was a stark reminder of the devastation caused by the war.
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Walking through the battle-scarred landscape, they could see the remnants of destroyed buildings and scorched earth.
Synonyms
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An area where soldiers fight during a war
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A wide area that is badly damaged, often by war or natural disaster
Antonyms
How Damaged
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Surface Forms
Morphology
battle-scarred + landscape
The meaning is directly compositional: 'battle-scarred' = scarred or marked by battle and 'landscape' = an area of land, so a learner who knows 'battle' and 'scarred' can infer it denotes land visibly damaged by war. This adjective+noun pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic construction and follows normal English compounding, making the expression immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Battle-scarred landscape uses the image of a wounded body: a battle leaves the landscape scarred with craters, broken trees, and damaged buildings, so it means 'an area marked or damaged by war'.