DEVASTATE Synonyms

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• (usually plural) a destructive action

• make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• tear down so as to make flat with the ground

• an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

• a ruined building

• the process of becoming dilapidated

• an event that results in destruction

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• destroy or cause to fail

• reduce to bankruptcy

• reduce to ruins

• deprive of virginity

• fall into ruin

• a whip used to inflict punishment

• something causing misery or death

• a person who inspires fear or dread

• punish severely; excoriate

• whip

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

• the trait of wasting resources

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away

• use inefficiently or inappropriately

• dispose of

• run off as waste

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• spend extravagantly

• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

• cause to grow thin or weak

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• become physically weaker

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly