devastate

verbB2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

devastates

V_ing/Gerund

devastating

V_ed/pp

devastated

1.
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
2.
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
3.
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
4.
To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

decimate destroy raze ruin

Cùng gốc / liên quan

devastativedevastatingdevastateddevastationdevastavit

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-proLatin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (to lay waste, devastate) (see -ate); from dē- + vastō (to destroy, lay waste). See vast. 1638.