Word Finder - devastating

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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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Causing devastation

The news was devastating to all of us.

If she were forced to make a choice it would be devastating for her.

The effect was devastating.

The devastating effects of these civil wars were most disastrous to the trade and the prosperity of Kwei-chow.

The worst was the failure of the last great devastating raid which the English launched against France.

As a parent, nothing is more important than your children's health, and nothing is more devastating than a child's illness.

Robert led or sent many devastating expeditions into Sicily, and hostilities continued under King Peter even after Frederick's death in 1337.

After a devastating car crash, he was unable to paint.

He penetrated as far as Paris, devastating the country through which he passed, but failed to take the town, and was forced to retreat with heavy loss.

Slowly warm lips kissed their way down to her neck in a devastating caress.

When parents are in high conflict, it can be devastating for the child.

For the faithful, exclusion from this holy rite can be devastating.

It sustained frequent sieges, as well as devastating conflagrations.

Serious disturbances thereupon ensued; and the Protestants, getting the worst of the argument, silenced their gainsayers by insulting the bishops and priests in the streets and profaning and devastating the Catholic churches.

Supported by several septs of Munster and Connaught, and assisted also by English contingents and by the MacDonnells of Antrim, O'Neill took the castle of Ballyshannon, and after devastating a large part of Tyrconnel he encamped at Knockavoe, near Strabane.

His adventurers (known as the Catalan Grand Company) declared war upon Andronicus, and, after devastating Thrace and Macedonia, conquered the duchy of Athens and Thebes.

When that disaster fell upon the country it found a teeming population fiercely competing for a very narrow margin of subsistence; and so widespread and devastating were its effects that between 1847 and 1852 over 1,200,000 of the Irish people emigrated to other lands.

Towards the end of October, Wallenstein, after devastating Saxony, was preparing to go into winter quarters at Liitzen, when the king surprised him as he was crossing the Rippach (1st of November) and a rearguard action favourable to the Swedes ensued.

Dealing with a cheating spouse can be devastating to a marriage and children.

Lambert, a former count of Nantes, after devastating Anjou in concert with Nominoe, duke of Brittany, had by the end of the year 851 succeeded in occupying all the western part as far as the Mayenne.

His good fortune, however, does not forsake him; he lands in Ireland just as a fierce dragon is devastating the country, and the king has promised the hand of the princess to the slayer of the monster.

He succeeded in breaking the power of Damascus, which had long been devastating his land, and extended his kingdom from Hamath on the Orontes to the Dead Sea.

Devastating floods in the rainy season washed away most of the year's rice harvest.

This can be devastating to some people, especially children.

The Relay for Life store features products that both encourage those who are battling cancer or know someone who is, and also helps raise funds toward finding a cure for one of our world's most devastating diseases.

If you've already experienced the pain of a breakup, then you know how devastating it can be.

Lost loves and friendships can be devastating to almost every individual, but not all persons are as aware of every aspect of their psyche as a Scorpio.

Some can cause devastating levels of disability, while others carry symptoms that are much less intense.

The British scientific community takes the retraction to a devastating level for Wakefield, as they suggest that the study is not only erroneous, it is fraudulent.

For most families, $5000 is a financially devastating amount of money to have to pull together.

After devastating Georgia in 1401 he marched against the Turks.

This was the period of those devastating raids which made the savage Magyar horsemen the scourge and the terror of Europe.

On the tenth, being asked the object of his visit, he handed the letter to the king, whose first plan for complying with it was to send him to slay the Chimaera, a monster which was devastating the country.

In the region of tropical hurricanes the navies, while in the Mediterranean and in the Indian Ocean converging wind system of a circular storm causes a heaping many soundings were made in connexion with submarine up of water capable of devastating the low coral islands of the cables to the East.

Massena retreated, devastating the country to check the pursuit, but on several occasions his rearguard was deeply engaged, and such were the sufferings of his army, both in the invasion and in the retreat, that the French, when they re-entered Spain, had lost 30,000 men.

But Louis the German, who was also a candidate for the succession of Louis II., revenged himself for Charles's success by invading and devastating his dominions.

He sent the earl of Salisbury with some of his mercenaries to join the confederates in Flanders, while he sailed with the main body of them to La Rochelle, whence he marched northwardr devastating the land before him.

Note how the author's seemingly banal insights into his own life come together to form a coherent, devastating whole.

That has already happened in databases that contain biometrics, with devastating consequences for some of the people whose data have been mixed up.

However there are frequent, devastating hurricanes from September to December.

Patrick O'Connor, QC for the family, said, " This report is a devastating indictment of the whole prison service.

He used a lance that had a devastating effect in a forward direction.

Most people who undergo a laryngectomy find the loss of the ability to speak devastating.

It would be detrimental, if not devastating, to our system of justice and unfair to private litigants.

Its deliberate release in 2002 leads to the most devastating global plague ever known.

When this happens they can completely drain your account which can be devastating.

The cause of divorce can sometimes be so cumbersome, emotionally draining and devastating that the effects of the divorce don't compare to it.

Although a vitamin A deficiency is rare in the United States, the effects worldwide are a devastating problem.

Children who receive too little vitamin D are at risk for developing rickets, a devastating condition which can cause bones to weaken and break.

It provides hope and encouragement to those suffering from this devastating disease, while also raising funds for the essential research that must continue on toward finding a cure.