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devastate Verb

— If something devastates something else such as a family, a city, or the economy, it partly or completely destroys it. The economies of several countries were devastated by the war. — If someone is devastated by a comment or situation, they are very upset by it. We were devastated by the loss of our son.

devastate

— verb (= lay waste to, waste) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion — verb overwhelm or overpower He was devastated by his grief when his son died

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devastate English » English

destroy ravage ruin lay waste waste desolate wreck spoil demolish sack damage undo trample down scourge lay waste to kill destruct annihilate wipe out trash sweep over ransack plunder pillage oppress mar erase efface destroy completely despoil depopulate defeat decimate blight zap unmake tyrannize turn upside down tread down telescope take down strip squander smash shake down scatter about rob retard raze rase

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Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

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Conjugation devastate conjugation

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devastate · verb

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We're gonna to devastate this village.
They'll destroy your cities, devastate your planet.
Overwhelm and devastate. That's the way to get power and to hold it.
It served us well as bait to draw you here, but the Slavers had weapons that could devastate a galaxy.
From those positions, they could devastate the entire surface of the planet.
From those positions. they could devastate the entire surface of the planet.
It would devastate my reputation as a dude.
And most importantly, never take along anything on your journey so valuable or dear that its loss would devastate you.
This'll crack him up, devastate him.
Between Sunday and Monday hangs a day so dark, it will devastate.
Now, these Patagonian maras of yours. devastate entire Argentinian villages, do they?
Devastate small towns, do they?
They're no more than an inch long, but they can devastate a forest. in less than an hour.
A chain reaction involving a handful of molecules could devastate subspace throughout an entire Quadrant.
Overwhelm and devastate.
From those positions, they could devastate the entire planet.
This cannot leave this room. It would devastate my reputation as a dude.
It could devastate her.
It should devastate about two square miles.
It was trying to devastate with another buyer of this service.
Between Sunday and Monday hangs a day so dark it will devastate.
And for a moment, I felt her need not to be rejected as though it would devastate her.
A blow to Pearl would devastate the Pacific Fleet's ability to make war.
Major new motorway that's gonna devastate the local community?
You don't devastate your girlfriend with news of a separation in the middle of prom.
Part of me thinks I should tell her, but I just know it would devastate her.
His hunts exhaust the people. his soldiers devastate our lands, and the beast is still at large.
The Wall Street crash would devastate the financial community.
This will devastate her.
Aw wait a minute, this guy says to you this is not for you and it didn't devastate you?
It would devastate me.
And in this case, a woman who carried a secret so powerful that if revealed, it would devastate the very foundations of Christianity.

News and current affairs

HONG KONG - A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.
The coup and the West's complacency about it (if not complicity in it) could devastate Egypt.
The differences created among members may devastate the spirit of commonality.
The move was met with howls of protest from those who argue that the entry of large hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Walmart will devastate the small shops that currently dominate India's retail sector.
Moreover, such a slowdown would devastate the developing world, as weaker performance in the advanced economies reduces the growth of export markets.
For example, Portugal's 2013 budget reduces the number of tax brackets from eight to five - a move that will devastate the middle class.
A Russian attack on, say, Mariupol, eastern Ukraine's second-largest port (accounting for roughly one-third of the country's exports), would devastate an economy that is already tanking.
Instead of simply watching in horror, as it did at the start of the Bosnian war, NATO decided to intervene before Milosevic's forces could again devastate one of the constituent ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.
Containing a disease or a terrorist threat by curtailing international travel or transport would devastate the world economy.
Yet warming is currently on course to reach 4-6 degrees by the end of the century - high enough to devastate global food production and dramatically increase the frequency of extreme weather events.

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