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Noun devastation has 5 senses

• devastation(n = noun.state) desolation - the state of being decayed or destroyed; Array
is a kind of deterioration, impairment
has particulars: ruin, ruination, blight
Derived form verb devastate₁

• devastation(n = noun.feeling) Array - the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; "her departure left him in utter devastation"
is a kind of feeling
Derived form verb devastate₂

• devastation(n = noun.event) desolation - an event that results in total destruction; Array
is a kind of ruin, ruination
Derived form verb devastate₁

• devastation(n = noun.act) ravaging - plundering with excessive damage and destruction; Array
is a kind of pillage, pillaging, plundering
Derived form verb devastate₁

• devastation(n = noun.act) destruction - the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists; Array
is a kind of conclusion, ending, termination
has particulars: disaster, kill, laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining, wrecking, demolishing, leveling, razing, tearing down, annihilation, obliteration, decimation, self-destruction, neutralisation, neutralization, sabotage, extermination, liquidation, holocaust, demolition, spoliation, hooliganism, malicious mischief, vandalism
Derived form verb devastate₁

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devastation

bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, carnage, confusion, consumption, damnation, decimation, depopulation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, disintegration, disorganization, dispeoplement, disruption, dissolution, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, loss, perdition, ravage, ruin, ruination, shambles, slaughter, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

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devastation

Attack

N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.

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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