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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Devastate \Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Devastated}; p. pr & vb n. {Devastating}.] [L. devastatus p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste, vastus waste. See {Vast}.] To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. --Macaulay. Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: devastating adj 1: making light of "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: {annihilating}, {withering}] 2: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: {annihilative}, {annihilating}, {withering}] 3: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: {crushing}]
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