The news will certainly devastate him.
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Devastate
//ˈdev.ə.stæɪt//
Synonyms for "devastate" (107 found)
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38 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λυμαίνομαι verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- ἐρημόω verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- viran etmək verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Bulgarian
1 entries- опустошавам verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Catalan
1 entries- devastar verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 摧毀 /摧毁 verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- 破壞 /破坏 verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- 蹂躪 /蹂躏 verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Danish
1 entries- ødelægge verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Finnish
4 entries- hävittää verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- mullistaa verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- tehdä tuhoa (suurta) verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- tuhota verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
French
1 entries- dévaster verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Galician
1 entries- devastar verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
German
2 entries- verheeren verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- verwüsten verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Hungarian
1 entries- elpusztít verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Irish
1 entries- slad verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Italian
1 entries- devastare verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Japanese
1 entries- 破壊する verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Latin
3 entries- dēvastō verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- populor verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- vastō verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ødelegge verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Polish
2 entries- dewastować verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- zdewastować verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Portuguese
1 entries- devastar verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Romanian
1 entries- devasta verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Russian
4 entries- опустоша́ть verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- опустоши́ть verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- разори́ть verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- разоря́ть verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Spanish
1 entries- devastar verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Swedish
1 entries- ödelägga verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Ukrainian
3 entries- пусто́шити verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- спусто́шити verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
- спусто́шувати verb (to ruin many or all things over a large area)
Sample sentences
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The flood waters will devastate the nearby town.
Source: tatoeba (5266044)
This could devastate Algeria's economy.
Source: tatoeba (8596041)
Somalia’s South West state is one of the places the United Nations expects famine to arise as the prolonged and worst drought in 40 years continues to devastate the country.
Source: tatoeba (11269152)
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