B1verb · intransitive · rare

devastate

devastate · devastates · devastated · devastating

спустошувати, спустошити, пустошити

разорить, разорять, опустошать, опустошить

verwüsten, verheeren

To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city,…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.

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/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/

» Tom looks devastated.

Тому виглядає спустошеним.

Meaning

4 senses

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.
verwüsten, verheeren
опустоша́тьopustošátʹ, опустоши́тьopustošítʹ, разоря́тьrazorjátʹ
спусто́шуватиspustóšuvaty, спусто́шитиspustóšyty, пусто́шитиpustóšyty
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
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.
To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay

More definitions

overwhelm or overpower
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Examples

212 sentences

Tom looks devastated.
Тому виглядає спустошеним. — deniko
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Tom's parents were devastated.
Батьки Тома були спустошені. — deniko
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Tom was absolutely devastated.
Том був повністю спустошений. — Oleksandr_Tahayev
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I was devastated.
Я був спустошений. — deniko
deIch war am Boden zerstört. — freddy1
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Tom is going to be devastated.
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Translations

8 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

to ruin many or all things over a large area:

Русский

By meaning 1

to ruin many or all things over a large area:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to ruin many or all things over a large area:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, deva

Borrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, devastate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)); from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“to destroy, lay waste”). See vast. First attested in 1638.

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