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English noun: devastation | |||
| 1. | devastation (state) the state of being decayed or destroyed | ||
| Synonyms | desolation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deterioration, impairment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blight, ruin, ruination | ||
| 2. | devastation (feeling) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | ||
| Samples | Her departure left him in utter devastation. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
| 3. | devastation (event) an event that results in total destruction | ||
| Synonyms | desolation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ruin, ruination | ||
| 4. | devastation (act) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | ||
| Synonyms | ravaging | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pillage, pillaging, plundering | ||
| 5. | devastation (act) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | ||
| Synonyms | destruction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conclusion, ending, termination | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | annihilation, decimation, demolishing, demolition, disaster, extermination, holocaust, hooliganism, kill, laying waste, leveling, liquidation, malicious mischief, neutralisation, neutralization, obliteration, razing, ruin, ruination, ruining, sabotage, self-destruction, spoliation, tearing down, vandalism, wrecking | ||
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