noun
- The act of destroying or state of being destroyed: bane, destruction, havoc, ruin, ruination, undoing, wrack1, wreck, wreckage. See help/harm/harmless, leftover.
devastation
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The noun has 5 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the state of being decayed or destroyed
Synonym: desolation
Meaning #2:
the feeling of being counfounded or overwhelmed
Meaning #3:
an event that results in total destruction
Synonym: desolation
Meaning #4:
plundering with excessive damage and destruction
Synonym: ravaging
Meaning #5:
termination by an act of destruction
Synonym: destruction
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- depredation
- destruction
- massive retaliation (Politics)
- Smothering Dreams (1983 Avant-garde / Experimental Film)
- Storm of Fire: World War II and the Destruction of Dresden (1978 History Film)
- devastation
- Frederick William (Elector of Brandenburg)
- Hiroshima (History)
- vastation
- Russians at War (1943 Film)
- lay waste (Idiom)
- nuclear winter
- Marshall Plan (History)
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: The Great Siberian Explosion (1980 Science & Technology Film)
