Devastate
['devəsteɪt] or ['dɛvəstet]
Definition
(verb.) overwhelm or overpower; 'He was devastated by his grief when his son died'.
Typist: Michael--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Editor: Ramon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Ravage, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil, despoil, destroy, desolate, strip, lay waste.
Editor: Stu
Definition
v.t. to lay waste: to plunder.—ns. Devastā′tion act of devastating: state of being devastated: havoc; Devastā′vit a waste of the estate of a deceased person by the executor.
Typed by Borg
Examples
- Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses. Plato. The Republic.
- The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Tibet was invaded and devastated by Mangu, and Persia and Syria invaded in good earnest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wanted Germany so crippled and devastated as never more to be able to stand up to France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This same pestilence devastated China, as we shall note in § 4 of this chapter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And nothing is so devastating, nothing--' 'Yes,' said Ursula humbly, 'you must have suffered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there was a devastating cynicism at the bottom of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Shane