devastation

devastation
noun
1. the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
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her departure left him in utter devastation

• Derivationally related forms: ↑devastate
• Hypernyms: ↑feeling
2. plundering with excessive damage and destruction
• Syn: ↑ravaging
• Derivationally related forms: ↑devastate, ↑ravage (for: ↑ravaging)
• Hypernyms: ↑plundering, ↑pillage, ↑pillaging
3. the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
• Syn: ↑destruction
• Derivationally related forms: ↑devastate, ↑destroy (for: ↑destruction)
• Hypernyms: ↑termination, ↑ending, ↑conclusion
• Hyponyms:
4. an event that results in total destruction
• Syn: ↑desolation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑desolate (for: ↑desolation), ↑devastate
• Hypernyms: ↑ruin, ↑ruination
5. the state of being decayed or destroyed
• Syn: ↑desolation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑desolate (for: ↑desolation), ↑devastate
• Hypernyms: ↑deterioration, ↑impairment
• Hyponyms: ↑ruin, ↑ruination, ↑blight

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  • dévastation — [ devastasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XIVe, rare av. 1690; lat. devastatio ♦ Action de dévaster (⇒ destruction, pillage, ravage); son résultat (⇒ dégât, ruine). Les dévastations de la guerre. « l état de dévastation où se trouvait son manoir » (Gautier). ●… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Devastation — may refer to: Various warships: HMS Devastation, any of four ships of the British Royal Navy La Dévastation, various French warships named Dévastation. Some video games or movies based on them: Devastation (video game), a first person shooter… …   Wikipedia

  • devastation — Devastation. s. f. v. du verbe Devaster, qui n est point en usage. Desolation, ruine entiere d un pays par la guerre. La devastation d un Royaume. la devastation d une province. la devastation de tout un pays …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Devastation — Dev as*ta tion, n. [Cf. F. d[ e]vastation.] 1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. [1913 Webster] Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 2.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Devastation — Разработчик Digitalo Studios и ARUSH Entertainment Издатель …   Википедия

  • devastation — DEVASTATION. s. f. Désolation, ruine d un Pays. La devastation des Provinces d Occident fut causée par l invasion des Barbares …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • devastation — mid 15c., from M.Fr. dévastation, from L.L. devastationem (nom. devastatio), from pp. stem of L. devastare lay waste completely, from de completely (see DE (Cf. de )) + vastare lay waste, from vastus empty, desolate (see WASTE …   Etymology dictionary

  • Devastation — (lat.), Verheerung; devastieren, verwüsten. Devastationsklage, Klage, welche der Hypothekgläubiger wegen erheblicher Verschlechterungen des ihm verpfändeten Grundstücks auf Sicherheitsmaßregeln und Rückzahlung vor Verfall der Hypothek erheben… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Devastation — Devastation, lat., Verwüstung; devastiren, verwüsten …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • devastation — index catastrophe, conflagration, consumption, debacle, defilement, destruction, disaster, havoc, plunder …   Law dictionary

  • devastation — *ruin, havoc, destruction Analogous words: demolishment, razing (see corresponding verbs at DESTROY): ravaging, sacking, pillaging, despoliation (see corresponding verbs at RAVAGE) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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