Devastative

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    devastating; highly destructive

    "It promises, with what prospect of success its own figures must witness, to gather up the supply of water now running to waste and increasing the devastative power of floods, together with the excess of the spring and fall discharge […]"

Example

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"It promises, with what prospect of success its own figures must witness, to gather up the supply of water now running to waste and increasing the devastative power of floods, together with the excess of the spring and fall discharge […]"

Etymology

From devastate + -ive.

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