devastate

Betekenis (Engels)

1. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
2. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
3. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
4. To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay

Sinonieme

destroy

ravage

ruin

lay waste

waste

desolate

wreck

demolish

spoil

damage

sack

destruct

lay waste to

kill

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trample down

scourge

annihilate

undo

mar

sweep over

despoil

trash

oppress

defeat

wipe out

blight

pillage

plunder

efface

ransack

depopulate

erase

decimate

destroy completely

massacre

mishandle

murder

obliterate

outstrip

override

overrule

overwhelm

pulverize

quash

raid

rase

raze

retard

rob

smash

squander

strip

take down

telescope

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tread down

tyrannize

unmake

zap

⚡

be crushed

be destroyed

be ruined

do for

make a mess of

shake down

turn upside down

scatter about

blow violently

abuse

be pulverized

mess about with

do damage to

make in confusion

over-run

abolish

lay waste

black out

blast

blemish

blot out

bobble

bollix

bollocks

bother

buffet

deface

deflower

denude

depredate

desolation

disrupt

do away with

domineer

eliminate

eradicate

exterminate

extinguish

fall to pieces

fritter

gnaw

go

harry

havoc

ill-use

impair

impoverish

knock out

loot

maltreat

Vertalings

dévaster

devastare

verwüsten

verheeren

devastar

ravager

desolare

vernichten

ruiner

distruggere

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, devastate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)); from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“to destroy, lay waste”). See vast. First attested in 1638.