RAVAGED
\ɹˈavɪd͡ʒd], \ɹˈavɪdʒd], \ɹ_ˈa_v_ɪ_dʒ_d]\
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made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
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having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
By Princeton University
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.