| VERB | change | devastate, lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | devastate | overwhelm or overpower |
| Sounds | deh'vahstey.t | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge | |
| Narrower | ruin | Reduce to ruins |
| Broader | destroy, ruin | Destroy completely |
| Spanish | arrasar, asolar, desgastar, desolar, destrozar, destruir, devastar, gastar | |
| Catalan | arrasar, assolar, desgastar, destrossar, devastar, gastar | |
| Nouns | devastation | the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists |
| devastation | plundering with excessive damage and destruction | |
| devastation | an event that results in total destruction | |
| devastation | the state of being decayed or destroyed | |
| Meaning | overwhelm or overpower. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The bad news will devastate him | |
| Example | "He was devastated by his grief when his son died" | |
| Broader | overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake | Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli |
| Spanish | anonadar, arrasar, destrozar, devastar | |
| Catalan | arrasar, deixar aclaparat, desfer, devastar | |
| Nouns | devastation | the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed |
©2001-25 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact
English |
Spanish |
Catalan
Privacy |
Robots