Devastation
[,devə'steɪʃn]
Definition
(noun.) an event that results in total destruction.
(noun.) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; 'her departure left him in utter devastation'.
(noun.) the state of being decayed or destroyed.
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Definition
(n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
(n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ravage, desolation, destruction, havoc, ruin, waste, pillage, rapine.
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Examples
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They had evidently been led to believe that the National troops carried death and devastation with them wherever they went. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Again, as to the devastation of Hellenic territory or the burning of houses, what is to be the practice? Plato. The Republic.
- Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years War. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Darwin had many other instances of nature's devastations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Central Europe did not fully recover from these robberies and devastations for a century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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