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Another word for devastate

Verb

  1. To destroy completely as or as if by conquering

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

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Another word for devastate

Verb

  1. To lay waste

    2. See also:

    ravage

    destroy

  2. To make helpless

    3. See also:

    ravage

    defeat

    confute

    confuse

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Sentence Examples

  • It will devastate her.

  • That would devastate Howie.

  • But the guerilla tactics of the wily klepht were powerless against Ibrahim, who marched northward, and, avoiding Nauplia for the present, seized Tripolitsa, and made this the base from which his columns marched to devastate the country far and wide.

  • g Y the Holy See; he refused a request of the Florentines for grain from Romagna, and authorized Hawkwood to devastate their territory.

  • Fires have the potential to cause minimal damage, or to devastate an entire residence.

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