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devastatingadjective causing or tending to cause destructiona devastating blow to our morale annihilatory, calamitous, cataclysmal(or cataclysmic), destructive, devastative, disastrous, ruinous antibiotic, biocidalbaleful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous, pestilent, poisonous, virulent, vitaldeleterious, detrimental, harmful, pernicious nondestructive preservative, protectiveconstructive, creative, formative, productiveharmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensiveameliorative, helpful, usefulhealthful, healthy, nonfatal, nonlethal, salubrious, wholesome to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionthe city was devastated, first by the earthquake and then by fires destroying, ravaging, ruining, scourging despoiling, foraying, harrying, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, sacking, strippingannihilating, desolating, eradicating, expunging, extinguishing, extirpating, nuking, obliterating, rubbing out, shattering, smashing, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wiping out, wracking, wreckingdecimating, mowingdemolishing, razingcrushing, overpowering, overrunning, overthrowing, overwhelming reconditioning, recovering, redeeming, rehabilitating, restoringfixing, mending, patching, repairing, revamping to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofthe explosion devastated an entire city block annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, pulling down, pulverizing, razing, rubbing out, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wracking, wrecking beating, besting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, scotching, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against)blasting, blowing up, breaking, crippling, damaging, defacing, deteriorating, disfiguring, disintegrating, dissolving, dynamiting, harming, impairing, injuring, mangling, marring, mutilating, spoiling, vitiatingeroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmakingblotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping outdespoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizingassassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revampingcreating, inventingassembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingbringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconserving, preserving, protecting, savingrebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stresswe were devastated by the awful news of his death crushing, flooring, grinding (down), oppressing, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, prostrating, snowing under, swamping, whelming deluging, drowning, sinkingconfuting, defeating, refutingbreaking, demoralizing, distressing, disturbing, rocking, shattering, staggering, throwing, unmanning, unnerving, upsetting in 1634 |