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1. The state of being decayed or destroyed
   - desolation
    
2. The feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
   "her departure left him in utter devastation"
    
3. An event that results in total destruction
   - desolation
    
4. Plundering with excessive damage and destruction
   - ravaging
    
5. The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
   - destruction

Derived forms: devastations

See also: devastate

Type of: conclusion, deterioration, ending, feeling, impairment, pillage, pillaging, plundering, ruin, ruination, termination

Encyclopedia: Devastation