DEVASTATING Synonyms

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

• that cripples or disables or incapacitates

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• causing destruction or much damage

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• death of a person

• a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

• a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• so strong as to be irresistible

• very strong; urgently felt

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• ruinously destructive and wasting

• extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

• causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• causing fear or dread or terror

• exceptionally bad or displeasing

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

• kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

• kill in large numbers

• 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