devastate — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. 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.

   Esempi

   Halifax in Canada was devastated by a ship exploding in 1917. SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.

2. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.

3. 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.

4. To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay

Verbo

1. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

   Sinonimi

   lay waste towastedesolateravagescourge

   Termini più generali

   destroyruin

   Esempi

   The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

2. overwhelm or overpower

   Termini più generali

   overwhelmoverpowersweep overwhelmovercomeovertake

   Esempi

   He was devastated by his grief when his son died