devastate — Słownik języka angielskiego

Czasownik

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.

   Przykłady

   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

Czasownik

1. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

   Synonimy

   lay waste towastedesolateravagescourge

   Terminy szersze

   destroyruin

   Przykłady

   The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

2. overwhelm or overpower

   Terminy szersze

   overwhelmoverpowersweep overwhelmovercomeovertake

   Przykłady

   He was devastated by his grief when his son died