Definition of Devastate

Devastate

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

Related Definitions:

Desolate, Lay, Ravage, To, Waste

Devastate Quotations

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
Dick Armey

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Devastate Translations

devastate in Italian is desolare
devastate in Latin is depopulo, diripio, evasto, diripio
devastate in Spanish is desolar, devastar

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