devastating

English

Adjective

devastating (comparative more devastating, superlative most devastating)

1. Causing devastation.
   • 1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.

   • 2023 June 3, Haley Britzky, Brad Lendon, quoting Lloyd Austin, “Taiwan war would be ‘devastating,’ warns US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he criticizes China at Shangri-La security summit”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-03‎^[2]:

     “The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make no mistake: conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating.”

Derived terms

• devastatingly
• undevastating

 

Translations

causing devastation

• Bulgarian: опустошителен (bg) (opustošitelen)
• Catalan: devastador (ca)
• Finnish: tuhoava (fi)
• French: dévastateur (fr)
• German: verheerend (de)
• Greek: συντριπτικός (el) (syntriptikós)
• Irish: sladach
• Latin: vastificus
• Macedonian: разорувачки (razoruvački)
• Portuguese: devastador (pt)
• Spanish: devastador (es)
• Swedish: förödande (sv)

Verb

devastating

1. present participle and gerund of devastate