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Definition of devastation

termination by an act of destruction
plundering with excessive damage and destruction
an event that results in total destruction
the feeling of being counfounded or overwhelmed; "her departure left him in utter devasation"
the state of being decayed or destroyed

Similar Words: destruction, ravaging, desolation

Hyponyms: disaster, kill, laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking, razing, leveling, tearing down, demolishing, annihilation, obliteration, decimation, self-destruction, neutralization, neutralisation, sabotage, extermination, liquidation, holocaust, demolition, spoliation, vandalism, hooliganism, malicious mischief, blight

Derivational Morphology: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge, destroy, destruct, ruin, depopulate

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