Word Finder - devastated

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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.

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

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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.

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Ruined, ravaged.

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the devastated city

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Extremely upset and shocked.

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a devastated widow

He would be devastated without you.

It was a brutal realization, one that left her devastated but also guiltier than ever.

Dean promised to talk to Cynthia but Randy was devastated as he ended the call.

While I'll be devastated, as I'm sure you will be when it ends, be comforted in what you've accomplished.

She'd gone from hopeful to devastated in the course of the first two days.

For crying out loud, Cindy, he'll be devastated, Mary interrupted.

During the war with Spain the town was devastated in 1595.

He got up the courage and asked me out but when I begged off he acted so devastated I felt like a heel.

In 1348 the island was devastated by the plague described by Boccaccio.

In 453 B.C. Elba was devastated by a Syracusan squadron.

The exiles dwelt at Tell-abib (" Hill of the flood "), one of the mounds or ruins made by the great floods that devastated the country,1 near the " river " Chebar (Kebar), probably a large canal not far south of the city of Babylon.

Teignmouth was burned by French pirates in 1340, and was again devastated by the French on the 26th of June 1690.

The town was devastated by Totila, but seems to have recovered.

His only recollection is that you were as devastated over your sister as everyone else.

In 168 B.C. Antiochus Epiphanes captured Jerusalem, destroyed the walls, and devastated the Temple, reducing the city to a worse position than it had occupied since the time of the captivity.

In 1903 the city was devastated by an epidemic of plague.

I reluctantly agreed and told him we were devastated that we prompted these deaths; the deputy sheriff, Youngblood, Brenda Washington.

Howie will devastated but he'll probably take Julie's side and forgive her.

Marcian repudiated the payment of tribute to Attila; he reformed the finances, checked extravagance, and repeopled the devastated districts.

Devastated by his wife's death, John lived a hermetic life in his solitary cabin in the woods.

After the death of Spock, the crew of the Enterprise is devastated.

Anyway he was devastated when they died.

The jealousy of the provinces, however, against the capital led to a series of disturbances, and for many years continual civil war devastated every part of the country.

In 614 Chosroes II., the king of Persia, captured Jerusalem, devastated many of the buildings, and massacred a great number of the inhabitants.

At his accession the greater part of his territory was occupied by strangers and devastated by war, and in European politics Brandenburg was merely an appendage of the empire.

A small group of their people are down in the area worst affected, trying to meet with individuals devastated by the tsunami.

A spokeswoman for the group said The band are really devastated and are really sorry for everybody who has tickets.

Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son.

The career change was short-lived, however, due to Marshall's death in late summer 1995, which left Anna devastated and alone.

During the dark days of 430, after the unsuccessful expedition of Pericles to Peloponnesus, and when the city was devastated by the plague, Cleon headed the opposition to the Periclean regime.

One of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes in history, Katrina devastated much of New Orleans, Louisiana and several areas of Mississippi and Florida on August 29, 2005.

West is reportedly, understandably so, devastated, as anyone would be when faced with the loss of a mother and her unconditional support and love.

West had an extremely close relationship with his mom and was completely devastated by the loss.

Parents are often emotionally devastated when their child runs away.

Rycroft did several interviews in the days after this heartbreaking event, and seemed genuinely devastated by how she was treated.

After Hurricane Andrew devastated Homestead Florida on August 24, 1992, building codes changed.

Local wildlife can be devastated and even protected fisheries aren't exempt.

Jill is devastated, but instead of moping around, she does something about it.

Allusions have been made to "a devastated and Covenant controlled Earth".

Nicole, who had always hoped for a biological child, was devastated by the loss.

The organization has offices in Port-au-Prince, which has been devastated by the earthquake disaster.

I I, 13), occupied Edom for six months and devastated it; it was garrisoned and permanently held by David (2 Sam.

Inda-bigas was himself overthrown and slain by a new pretender, Khumba-Khaldas III., who was opposed, however, by three other rivals, two of whom maintained themselves in the mountains until the Assyrian conquest of the country, when Tammaritu was first restored and then imprisoned, Elam being utterly devastated.

He greatly distinguished himself by fidelity to duty during a plague that devastated Amsterdam in 1602.

Meanwhile Germany was ravaged and devastated by civil war, which Conrad was unable to repress.

This drove the English king to put still further pressure on the enemy; in 1359 he led out from Calais the largest English army that had been seen during the war, devastated all northern France as far as Reims and the borders of Burgundy, and thencontinuing the campaign through the heart of the winterpresented himself before the gates of Paris and ravaged the Ile de France.

We must go to countries like the Asiatic provinces of Turkey, devastated by Ottoman rule, to find such a diminution in the numbers of the people as was seen in Ireland during the last half of the 19th century.

One of the worst forms taken by this ill-will was the oft-revived myth of ritual murder, and later on when the Black Death devastated Europe (1348-1349) the Jews were the victims of an odious charge of well-poisoning.

Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting the districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

A huge avalanche of earth and rocks buried the Nagase Valley with its villages and inhabitants, and devastated an area of over 27 sq.