Devastative
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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
More examples"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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