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What does devastating mean?

devastating

(= annihilating, withering) making light of afire with annihilating invective a devastating portrait of human folly to compliments inflated I've a withering reply — W.S.Gilbert (= annihilative, withering) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction possessing annihilative power a devastating hurricane the guns opened a withering fire (= crushing) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination a crushing blow a crushing rejection bone-crushing

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Simple sentences

Devastating forest fires broke out in Siberia.
A devastating earthquake hit the state capital.
We suffered a devastating loss.
Natural disasters can be devastating.
A devastating typhoon has struck the Philippines.
Tom had devastating news.
Fireworks were canceled in other parts of the country because of the extremely dry conditions that led to devastating wildfires.
Russians are able to name as brothers the very people whose country they're devastating and who they are slaughtering.

Movie subtitles

The results were devastating.
It's a scene of devastating misery.
Bewitching, intoxicating, devastating.
Isn't this too, too devastating?
Not to mention your devastating wit.
When a torpedo hits so small a ship as a destroyer, the result is bound to be fairly devastating, if not fatal.
An explosive derived from the metal uranium so powerful and devastating that one relatively small bomb gave promise of having the destructive power of 20,000 tons of TNT.
Wasn't that a devastating remark?
The president announced plans for a new bomb that's capable of devastating an area of two million square miles.
They share with all the leaders of the Third Reich. responsibility for the most malignant, the most calculated. the most devastating crimes in the history of all mankind.
They were. shocking films. devastating films.
The devastating storm ln West Scotland ls now assuming the proportions of a national calamity. Several shipwrecks have been announced. Off Scrabster, the dyke broke along a stretch of 2 miles.
In the past, I knew a village very similar to this one. But a plague was devastating it.
Devastating!
For the meticulous care with which you have executed your finely formulated machinations in extricating us from this devastating dilemma.
Jo, your logic is devastating.
Anyway, it's devastating.
The professor says that this machine is much more devastating.
Startling, my dear fellow, it's devastating.
It was a thoroughly devastating and a supremely joyless affair.
Among the targets of this devastating attack. were New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The devastating storm ln West Scotland ls now assuming the proportions of a national calamity.
If this formula were to fall into the wrong hands, the consequences could be devastating.
But it only takes two lunatics. to sit down and sign a piece of paper. and we could be plunged into a nuclear peace so devastating. that my company, for one, would be wiped out completely.
We now repeat our earlier bulletin of the devastating earthquake which struck San Francisco just ten minutes ago.
We now repeat our earlier bulletin on the devastating earthquake.
Since midnight heavy devastating fire on the whole section.
Courtland always finds the most devastating girls.
We are waiting, Monsieur, for your devastating reply.
A kind of left-handed romance. the devastating criticism of a man in love.
You will see how devastating our nuclear bomb is.
They share, with all the leaders of the Third Reich, responsibility for the most malignant, the most calculated, the most devastating crimes in the history of all mankind.
Devastating films.
The unprecedented devastating financial crisis sweeps across United States and the entire world.
But a plague was devastating it.
The most devastating witness against my client is not a human being.
Devastating. Why, this could kill millions.
It would be a devastating blow to our antiquated systems.

News and current affairs

The advanced countries might mean Bangladesh and the disappearing island states no harm, but no war could be more devastating.
But because the US is the richest, most powerful country in the world, its neglect is devastating.
But this would be a devastating mistake of immediate, as well as inter-generational, proportions.
More recently, Kaufman was devastating in his cross-examination of Goldman Sachs executives.
The right policies - stronger social safety nets, progressive taxation, and better regulation (especially of the financial sector), to name a few - can reverse these devastating trends.
To generate the political will that such reforms require, we must confront policymakers' inertia and inaction with the grim facts of inequality and its devastating effects on our children.
Within the first two months of the devastating tsunami that struck that December, close to 50 heads of state and foreign ministers visited the island.
He also has placed the World Bank at the center of the effort to help rebuild nations emerging from devastating civil conflict, from Bosnia to Sierra Leone to East Timor.
Together the members of NATO have helped to protect Kosovo and recently brought aid to the victims of a devastating tsunami.
There are few areas in which government intervention is known to create value: reducing the devastating effects of a bank run is one.
A century ago, Britain managed the rise of American power without conflict, but the world's failure to manage the rise of German power led to two devastating world wars.
The 2010 flooding in Pakistan, for example, would have been far less devastating if so many trees from upper slopes had not been felled.
Like America, Britain has learned the hard way the limits of what sheer military power can achieve, and also the devastating implications of its misuse for its reputation in the Muslim world and beyond.
Though triggered by the need to devise an exit strategy from the Iraqi quagmire, the Iraq Study Group's grim report is a devastating indictment of the Bush administration's entire foreign policy.
The acceptance of violence without limit will be the most devastating feature of Arafat's legacy.
In the twenty-first century, it has showed how devastating a lack of such leadership can be.
With the exception of the Japanese participant, all had first-hand experience with the devastating Asian financial crisis of the late 1990's.
The economic dislocations and the humiliation of proud nations were, indeed, devastating (as Greeks today can attest).
In the Great Depression, one of the big surprises was the devastating abruptness with which markets turned on the US.
The end of Chavismo would threaten Iran's vast interests in Venezuela and its considerable presence in the Andes, while the fall of the Assad dynasty would be a devastating blow to Iran's regional strategy.
VIENNA - Nuclear power has become safer since the devastating accident one year ago at Fukushima, Japan.
Shanghai - Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.

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