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Verb: devastate  'devu`steyt
  1. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    - lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge, lay waste
     
  2. Overwhelm or overpower
    "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"

Derived forms: devastates, devastated, devastating

See also: devastation

Type of: destroy, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate, sweep over, whelm [archaic]

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Deutschland
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Devanagari
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