devastation
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to lay waste or make desolate; ravage; destroy |
| 2. | to confound or overwhelm, as with grief or shock |
| [C17: from Latin dēvastāre, from | |
| devas'tation | |
| —n | |
| 'devastative | |
| —adj | |
| 'devastator | |
| —n | |
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Devastation
is always a great word to know.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
devastation
mid-15c., from M.Fr. devastation, from L.L. devastationem, from L. devastare "lay waste completely," from de- "completely" + vastare "lay waste," from vastus "empty, desolate" (see waste).
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Example sentences
That's why so much of rainforest devastation proceeds hand in hand with lawlessness.
As the scope of the devastation became clearer, survivors spoke in terms of all that has disappeared.
In this film you can see the devastation left by the storm.
Launching the nukes will surely result in the devastation of humanity.
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