DEVASTATE, DEVASTATED, DEVASTATING, DEVASTATION, DEVASTATOR
ADJECTIVES
► ANNIHILATORY utterly devastating or destructive → 1825
► GUTTED bitterly disappointed; devastated, shattered; utterly fed up → 1984 sl.
► SHATTERED emotionally devastated → 2012 Brit. sl. (Bk.)
► VASTATE laid waste; devastated → 1629 obs.
► VASTATIVE devastating → 1667 obs.
NOUNS
► BOMBSHELL a sudden or devastating action or effect; something surprising → 1860 sl.
► HARRY the act of harrying; devastation, molestation, vexation → c1330 obs.
► HARRYING warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding → c900
► VASTATION 1. the act of laying waste, devastating, or destroying; also, an instance of this → 1545 obs.
2. the fact or condition of being devastated or laid waste → 1578 obs.
► VASTITUDE devastation; a laying waste → 1545 obs.
► WRACK damage, disaster, or injury to a person, state, etc., by reason of force, outrage, or violence; devastation, destruction → 1407
NOUNS – PERSON
► VASTATOR a devastator → 1659 obs.
VERBS
► HARASS to lay waste, to devastate, to plunder → a1618 obs.
► NUKE to lay waste, to ravage, to devastate → 1969 US sl.
► SHAMBLE to wreck, to devastate, to make a shambles of → M20 US
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