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v. To lay waste; destroy.

v. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark.

v. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

v. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.

v. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.

v. To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

To lay waste; ravage; make desolate.

Synonyms To harry, waste, strip, pillage, plunder.

v. overwhelm or overpower

v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

"Bubonic plague, a disease which at intervals has swept over the whole world, familiar to all who recall their history as the terrible Black Death of Europe and the plague described by Pepys and Defoe, will never again devastate the more civilized portions of the earth."

devastated    devastates    devastating   

whelm    overpower    overcome    sweep over    overtake    overwhelm   

devastation   

destroy    waste    desolate    ravage    pillage    plunder    demolish    harry    havoc    scour   

disastrous    deadly    terrific    overwhelm    destructive    lethal    fatal    appal    impending    catastrophic