Devastate

Verb

 * 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.

Adverbs for Devastate
virtually; generally; appallingly; spiritually; systematically; aimlessly; heartlessly; fiendishly; tyrannically; viciously; ferociously; brutally.

Synonyms for Devastate
ruin, demolish, desolate, wreck, sack, strip, waste, pillage, despoil.

Antonyms for Devastate
enrich, renew, restore, replenish, furnish, produce, upbuild, embellish, cultivate, refresh, benefit, preserve.

Thesaurus
abash, bring to ruin, chagrin, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, demolish, depopulate, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devour, discombobulate, discomfit, disconcert, dispeople, dissolve, embarrass, engorge, flatten, floor, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, havoc, humiliate, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, level, mortify, nonplus, obliterate, overwhelm, pillage, ravage, raze, ruin, ruinate, sack, shatter, shipwreck, shock, spoil, spoliate, swallow up, take aback, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unpeople, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

Etymology
From devastare: < de: + vastare: < vastus:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: опустошавам
 * Finnish: mullistaa
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian: devasta
 * Swedish:

Related terms

 * devastation

Verb
devastate



Anagrams

 * destavate
 * detestava