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Adjective devastating has 3 senses
- annihilating, devastating, withering - making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
Antonym: respectful (indirect, via disrespectful)
- annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering - wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
Antonym: constructive (indirect, via destructive)
- crushing, devastating - physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"
Antonym: constructive (indirect, via destructive)
Verb devastate has 2 senses
- lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
--1 is one way to destroy, ruin
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- devastate - overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
--2 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
Sample sentence:
The bad news will devastate him
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