Definition of "war-torn" []

• Extensively damaged as the result of war. (adjective)

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• "While Gates is traveling around the war-torn country, U.S. President Barack Obama considers how quickly and how many troops to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan next month."
• "The IMF agreed to a three-year, $129 million credit line for war-torn Afghanistan."
• "Bay is the sixth region of Somalia to slip into famine since the U.N.'s initial declaration of famine in the war-torn country in July that has left 4 million Somalis, or 53 percent of the population, unable to meet their food needs."