About The Word Devastation

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Devastation

Devastation Meaning & Definition
Devastation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Devastation?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Devastation: desolation | desolation | destruction | ravaging

Related Terms | Find terms related to Devastation: bloodbath | blue ruin | breakup | carnage | confusion | consumption | damnation | decimation | depopulation | depredation | desolation | despoilment | despoliation | destruction | disintegration | disorganization | dispeoplement | disruption | dissolution | havoc | hecatomb | holocaust | loss | perdition | ravage | ruin | ruination | shambles | slaughter | spoliation | undoing | vandalism | waste | wrack | wrack and ruin | wreck

See Also | annihilation | blight | conclusion | decimation | demolishing | demolition | deterioration | disaster | ending | extermination | feeling | holocaust | hooliganism | impairment | kill | laying waste | leveling | liquidation | malicious mischief | obliteration | pillage | pillaging | plundering | razing | ruin | ruin | ruin | ruination | ruination | ruination | ruining | sabotage | self-destruction | spoliation | tearing down | termination | vandalism | wrecking

Devastation In Webster's Dictionary

\Dev`as*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]vastation.] 1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. --Goldsmith. 2. (Law) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. --Blackstone. Syn: Desolation; ravage; waste; havoc; destruction; ruin; overthrow.

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