Devastated
['devəsteɪtid] or ['dɛvəstetɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Devastate
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Examples
- 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.
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