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Synonyms for devastation

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dev-uh-stey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɛv əˈsteɪ ʃən

Top 10 synonyms for devastation
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Définition of devastation

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from Middle French dévastation, from Late Latin devastationem (nominative devastatio), from past participle stem of Latin devastare "lay waste completely," from de- "completely" (see de-) + vastare "lay waste," from vastus "empty, desolate" (see waste (v.)).
  • noun destruction
Example sentences :
  • Or it may be “llwyv,” an elm tree, in reference to the devastation of the groves just mentioned.
  • Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin
  • Again, as to the devastation of Hellenic territory or the burning of houses, what is to be the practice?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • And now as he went he saw to it that the devastation was completed along the line of march.
  • Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Memory of the storm, the fire, of the devastation of her home.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • The devastation and suffering ashore was also very terrible.
  • Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman
  • For Cruachan had looked down on the devastation of the enemy.
  • Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
  • Early the next morning Barker saw the devastation and the causes thereof.
  • Extract from : « The Kentucky Ranger » by Edward T. Curnick
  • Already the devastation of the summer was beginning to be apparent.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Blood » by Robert Smythe Hichens
  • They passed the smouldering sites of many former villages, where only melancholy scenes of devastation met the eye.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
  • The policy of the English is now to resume the war of devastation, and the army is ordered into South Carolina.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the Revolution » by Charles Hersey

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