Sentence example with the word 'devastate'

devastate

abash, damn, desecrate, discomfit, flatten, havoc, mortify, raze, shock, unleash destruction, waste

Definition v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Last update: July 23, 2015


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Cyclone has devastated many places of Orissa.   [verb]

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That would devastate Howie.   [verb]

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The British decided to strike a critical blow which would devastate the rebels.   [verb]

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This is a mistake, but perhaps a natural one, as the cognac district in the Charente was almost wholly devastated in the phylloxera ravages of half a century ago.   [verb]

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The man who had devastated France returns to France alone, without any conspiracy and without soldiers.   [verb]

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The hospital was in a small Prussian town that had been twice devastated by Russian and French troops.   [verb]

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The neighbors devastated the garden and pillaged the rare flowers.   [verb]

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The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that.   [verb]

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In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence.   [verb]

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On August 10, 410, Rome was stormed by Alaric, and the suburbs devastated.   [Please select]

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It may be beaten, devastated, throttled, but it will not die.   [Please select]

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