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devastatesverbpresent tense third-person singular of devastate to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionthe city was devastated, first by the earthquake and then by fires destroys, ravages, ruins, scourges despoils, forays, harries, loots, marauds, pillages, plunders, sacks, stripsannihilates, desolates, eradicates, expunges, extinguishes, extirpates, nukes, obliterates, rubs out, shatters, smashes, totals, vaporizes, wastes, wipes out, wracks, wrecksdecimates, mowsdemolishes, razescrushes, overpowers, overruns, overthrows, overwhelms reconditions, recovers, redeems, rehabilitates, restoresfixes, mends, patches, repairs, revamps to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofthe explosion devastated an entire city block annihilates, creams, decimates, demolishes, desolates, destroys, does in, extinguishes, nukes, pulls down, pulverizes, razes, rubs out, ruins, shatters, smashes, tears down, totals, vaporizes, wastes, wracks, wrecks beats, bests, clobbers, conquers, crushes, defeats, drubs, licks, masters, overbears, overcomes, overmatches, prevails (over), routs, scotches, skunks, subdues, surmounts, thrashes, trims, triumphs (over), trounces, wallops, whips, wins (against)blasts, blows up, breaks, cripples, damages, defaces, deteriorates, disfigures, disintegrates, dissolves, dynamites, harms, impairs, injures, mangles, mars, mutilates, spoils, vitiateserodes, scours, sweeps (away), washes out, wears (away)dilapidates, disassembles, dismantles, guts, takes down, unbuilds, undoes, unmakesblots out, effaces, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extirpates, liquidates, obliterates, removes, roots (out), snuffs (out), stamps (out), wipes outdespoils, havocs, loots, pillages, plunders, ravages, sacks, tramples, trashes, vandalizesassassinates, butchers, cuts down, dispatches, executes, fells, kills, kills off, massacres, mows (down), murders, slaughters, slays, takes out, zaps builds, constructs, erects, puts up, raises, rears, sets up doctors, fixes, mends, patches, reconditions, repairs, revampscreates, inventsassembles, fabricates, fashions, forges, forms, frames, makes, manufactures, molds, produces, shapesbrings about, constitutes, establishes, fathers, founds, institutes, organizesconserves, preserves, protects, savesrebuilds, reconstructs, remodels, renovates, restores to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stresswe were devastated by the awful news of his death crushes, floors, grinds (down), oppresses, overcomes, overmasters, overpowers, overwhelms, prostrates, snows under, swamps, whelms deluges, drowns, sinksconfutes, defeats, refutesbreaks, demoralizes, distresses, disturbs, rocks, shatters, staggers, throws, unmans, unnerves, upsets |