Synonyms for devastated

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dev-uh-steyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛv əˌsteɪt

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Définition of devastated

Origin : 1630s, perhaps a back-formation from devastation. Apparently not common until 19c.; earlier verb form devast is attested from 1530s, from Middle French devaster. Related: devastated; devastating.

verb demolish, destroy

Example sentences :

We went on with some difficulty, trying to find the road in these devastated plains.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

For property that had been devastated or destroyed a similar maximum of compensation was voted.
Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

The country was devastated by fire and to the last degree inhospitable.
Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace

I have no child, my house is destroyed, my fields are devastated.
Extract from : « The Flood » by Emile Zola

What assurance could there be that the precious pearl-bed would not be devastated?
Extract from : « Adrift on the Pacific » by Edward S. Ellis

The wind dropped with the sun, leaving a maddened sea and a devastated sky.
Extract from : « Tales of Unrest » by Joseph Conrad

A girl's voice, sighing and singing, from deep in that devastated spot.
Extract from : « Operation Lorelie » by William P. Salton

Boston, Charleston, Baltimore, Pittsburg in turn were devastated.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various

He revelled in the beautiful woods so often devastated by forest fires.
Extract from : « Robert Louis Stevenson » by Margaret Moyes Black

The eleventh also devastated our country, in 1103, and the ravages were dreadful.
Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings

Antonyms for devastated

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