Meaning of DEVASTATION
| Pronunciation: | | `devu'steyshun
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | desolation, desolation, destruction, ravaging |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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