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Synonyms for devastate

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Synonyms for devastate

to destroy completely as or as if by conquering

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Synonyms for devastate

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

overwhelm or overpower

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(L)over profiles celebrity couples who have fallen in love in the public eye, and also sometimes devastatingly split in the limelight as well.
Since 2011, Syria and Iraq have been devastatingly ravaged due to the rise of extremism in both countries that intensified internal civil wars, which spawned degradation in standards of living.
He's sucked deeper into the quicksand up to his waist, pictured, and then devastatingly drops his mobile phone.
'Words cannot begin to express the deep sadness that not only I and my family but the entire country feels at the devastatingly sad news of Sen Miriam's passing,' Marcos said in a statement.
Structured more like a requiem than a polemic, it ebbs and flows with the cycles of mourning, featuring interviews with parents of the murdered children, as well as the teachers, priests, doctors and neighbors afflicted with survivor's guilt, as it elegantly and devastatingly captures the tenor of a small town that will carry these scars for at least a generation.
It was, therefore, a devastatingly cruel blow when he was hit by a drunk driver, leaving him again with serious injuries - injuries which have left the champion virtually housebound.
The children's agency also predict a rise in the country's already devastatingly high malnutrition rate .
It's a hidden national scandal that's making the country a devastatingly unfair place to live in.
She addressed the note to her 'darling' Bowes-Lyon and said that a devastatingly attractive young giant, called Roddy Macleod, with fair hair and blue eyes, had fallen from the sky.
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