The term “devastated” in literature is often deployed to evoke a sense of utter ruin and desolation, whether describing landscapes ravaged by war or nature or portraying emotional wreckage. Authors use it to create vivid imagery: fields reduced to smoldering ruins and forests stripped of life ([1], [2], [3]), or regions left barren after calamities and human conflicts ([4], [5], [6]). In some works, the word functions as a powerful metaphor for irreversible change and loss—as seen when a printing-office is tragically crippled by external forces ([7]) or when a once-thriving garden is utterly destroyed ([8]). Its versatility allows writers to capture both the physical and symbolic impact of destruction across time and space.