Devastation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; waste; ravage; havoc.
  • noun. In law, waste of the goods of a deceased person by an executor or administrator.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
  • noun. Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
  • noun. Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an event that results in total destruction
  • noun. plundering with excessive damage and destruction
  • noun. the state of being decayed or destroyed
  • noun. the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
  • noun. the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
  • Word Usage
    "I can only believe that with so many people reading these boards who really love Mexico, they must not really understand how terrible the devastation is here, or there would have been a huge response."
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