Definitions from Wiktionary (devastate)
▸ verb: To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
▸ verb: To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
▸ verb: To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
▸ verb: To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
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▸ verb: To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
▸ verb: To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
▸ verb: To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
▸ verb: To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
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ravage,
waste,
desolate,
lay waste to,
devast,
lay waste,
decimate,
wipe out,
destroy,
wreak havoc,
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