war-torn
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5.5
- adjective
- /wɔr tɔrn/
:
devastado por la guerra
- Most, like Afghanistan and Pakistan, are either war-torn or suffering through economic or political upheaval.
- war-torn country
- war-torn areas
- war-torn Europe
Like, how do you think that, you know, war-torn Korea?
- Like, how do you think that, you know, war-torn Korea?
- So they're driving through like war-torn Somalia or Syria, right?
- It was like walking around in whatever war-torn country you can think of.
- We bring employment to women in war-torn Kabul who are confined to their homes.
- And then they can have moments of pure joy in a horrendous war-torn country.
- Maybe it's dealing with some of the social challenges and conflicts that we have in the war-torn areas of the world.
- Things do get more blurry in a war-torn region, but that doesn't make it OK to see innocent people killed.
- And at that school I had eight Libyan refugees who just arrived from a war-torn country and the principal said they're yours for the rest of the year.
- They would move to the West of Ukraine, obviously war in very war-torn areas, destroyed areas.
- Not to be born in some war-torn country to, you know, totally irresponsible or absent or, you know, soon to be dead parents, right?
Examples
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Little is known about the psychological status of older refugees who have immigrated from war-torn areas in the Middle East.
Academic text (2011) -
During wartime, civilians either hunker down in their homes or flee war-torn regions and become refugees.
Academic text (2005) -
Imagine yourself deep behind enemy lines in a war-torn country.
Academic text (2016) -
And now what is happening is that the people are coming from this war-torn region into Europe in hopes of safety.
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And a short distance in the other direction is war-torn Iraq.
Academic text (2008) -
The cities were crowded with people from the war-torn areas.
Academic text (1995) -
Sixteen years ago, they escaped the war-torn city while the boy's father remained behind and later died.
Blog text (13) -
And he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for outstanding work with children in war-torn countries.
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We bring employment to women in war-torn Kabul who are confined to their homes.
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The charity provides aid to children in war-torn countries around the world.
Synonyms
32
7.6
Facing serious problems and attacks from others
23
3.8
A place or thing that is very badly damaged, often used for buildings and companies
2
5.3
Badly damaged or destroyed, like a building after a disaster
2
6.0
Damaged by war or long hardship, often with visible marks
1
8.0
A country or area suffering from ongoing fighting
Badly damaged by violence or natural disaster
Land that shows damage from war or fighting
Damaged and tired after long years of war
Antonyms
How Worn
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
War-torn comes from joining war and torn, where torn means 'ripped', like a piece of cloth. So imagine a city or building 'ripped' apart by fighting, which is why war-torn describes a place badly damaged by war.