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devastateverb to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionthe city was devastated, first by the earthquake and then by fires destroy, ravage, ruin, scourge despoil, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, sack, stripannihilate, desolate, eradicate, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, nuke, obliterate, rub out, shatter, smash, total, vaporize, waste, wipe out, wrack, wreckdecimate, mowdemolish, razecrush, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm recondition, recover, redeem, rehabilitate, restorefix, mend, patch, repair, revamp to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofthe explosion devastated an entire city block annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiateerode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmakeblot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe outdespoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalizeassassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, fell, kill, kill off, massacre, mow (down), murder, slaughter, slay, take out, zap build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revampcreate, inventassemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shapebring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organizeconserve, preserve, protect, saverebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stresswe were devastated by the awful news of his death crush, floor, grind (down), oppress, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, snow under, swamp, whelm deluge, drown, sinkconfute, defeat, refutebreak, demoralize, distress, disturb, rock, shatter, stagger, throw, unman, unnerve, upset ravage, devastate, waste, sack, pillage, despoil mean to lay waste by plundering or destroying.ravage implies violent often cumulative depredation and destruction.a hurricane ravaged the coast devastate implies the complete ruin and desolation of a wide area.an earthquake devastated the city waste may imply producing the same result by a slow process rather than sudden and violent action.years of drought had wasted the area sack implies carrying off all valuable possessions from a place.barbarians sacked ancient Rome pillage implies ruthless plundering at will but without the completeness suggested by sack.settlements pillaged by Vikings despoil applies to looting or robbing without suggesting accompanying destruction.the Nazis despoiled the art museums in 1638 |