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devastatedverbpast tense of devastate to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionthe city was devastated, first by the earthquake and then by fires destroyed, ravaged, ruined, scourged despoiled, forayed, harried, looted, marauded, pillaged, plundered, sacked, stripped(also stript)annihilated, desolated, eradicated, expunged, extinguished, extirpated, nuked, obliterated, rubbed out, shattered, smashed, totaled(or totalled), vaporized, wasted, wiped out, wracked, wreckeddecimated, moweddemolished, razedcrushed, overpowered, overran, overthrew, overwhelmed reconditioned, recovered, redeemed, rehabilitated, restoredfixed, mended, patched, repaired, revamped to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofthe explosion devastated an entire city block annihilated, creamed, decimated, demolished, desolated, destroyed, did in, extinguished, nuked, pulled down, pulverized, razed, rubbed out, ruined, shattered, smashed, tore down, totaled(or totalled), vaporized, wasted, wracked, wrecked beat, bested, clobbered, conquered, crushed, defeated, drubbed, licked, mastered, overbore, overcame, overmatched, prevailed (over), routed, scotched, skunked, subdued, surmounted, thrashed, trimmed, triumphed (over), trounced, walloped, whipped, won (against)blasted, blew up, broke, crippled, damaged, defaced, deteriorated, disfigured, disintegrated, dissolved, dynamited, harmed, impaired, injured, mangled, marred, mutilated, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt), vitiatederoded, scoured, swept (away), washed out, wore (away)dilapidated, disassembled, dismantled, gutted, took down, unbuilt, undid, unmadeblotted out, effaced, eradicated, expunged, exterminated, extirpated, liquidated, obliterated, removed, rooted (out), snuffed (out), stamped (out), wiped outdespoiled, havocked, looted, pillaged, plundered, ravaged, sacked, trampled, trashed, vandalizedassassinated, butchered, cut down, dispatched, executed, felled, killed, killed off, massacred, mowed (down), murdered, slaughtered, slew, took out, zapped built, constructed, erected, put up, raised, reared, set up doctored, fixed, mended, patched, reconditioned, repaired, revampedcreated, inventedassembled, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, framed, made, manufactured, molded, produced, shapedbrought about, constituted, established, fathered, founded, instituted, organizedconserved, preserved, protected, savedrebuilt, reconstructed, remodeled, renovated, restored to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stresswe were devastated by the awful news of his death crushed, floored, ground (down), oppressed, overcame, overmastered, overpowered, overwhelmed, prostrated, snowed under, swamped, whelmed deluged, drowned, sank(or sunk)confuted, defeated, refutedbroke, demoralized, distressed, disturbed, rocked, shattered, staggered, threw, unmanned, unnerved, upset in 1792 |