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What is "devastate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does devastate mean in English? Meaning of devastate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "devastate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "devastate": cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Verb

  • Meaning: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • Example: The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
  • Synonyms: desolate devastate lay waste to ravage scourge waste
  • Hyponyms: ruin
  • Hypernyms: destroy ruin

    • Meaning of "devastate": overwhelm or overpower

    Verb

  • Meaning: overwhelm or overpower
  • Example: He was devastated by his grief when his son died
  • Synonyms: devastate
  • Hypernyms: overcome overpower overtake overwhelm sweep over whelm

    • Synonyms:

    ruin, raze, ravage, wreck, smash, desolate, raid, level, pillage, trash, sack, despoil, plunder, devour, spoil, total, waste, desecrate, stamp out, depredate, spoliate, do one in, lay waste, take apart, wipe off map,

    Antonyms:

    construct, create, improve, guard, protect, enrich, build, help, save,

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    devastate in English: devastate
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