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Adjective devastating has 3 senses

• devastating(s = adj.all) annihilating, withering - making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"
• devastating(s = adj.all) annihilating, annihilative, withering - wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
• devastating(s = adj.all) crushing - physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

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THESAURUS

devastating

acid, baneful, beaming, bewitching, bitter, blooming, bright, brilliant, calamitous, captivating, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, consuming, consumptive, dazzling, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, disastrous, divine, doomful, enthralling, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, incisive, internecine, keen, killing, mordant, nihilist, nihilistic, overpowering, penetrating, radiant, ravaging, raving, ravishing, resplendent, ruining, ruinous, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, savage, self-destructive, shining, sparkling, spectacular, spellbinding, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, telling, trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, vitriolic, wasteful, wasting, withering

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Destruction

N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.

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