devastate

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verb

1. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly (Freq. 3)
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
• Syn:
lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge
• Derivationally related forms:
scourge (for: scourge), ravage (for: ravage), ravaging (for: ravage), desolation (for: desolate), devastation, waster (for: waste)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, ruin
• Hyponyms:
ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. overwhelm or overpower
- He was devastated by his grief when his son died
• Derivationally related forms:
devastation
• Hypernyms:
overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will devastate him

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge