Devastation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEVASTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ruin, destruction
• great destruction or damage
• severe and overwhelming shock or grief
• The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
• Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
• the state of being decayed or destroyed
• the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
• an event that results in total destruction
• plundering with excessive damage and destruction
• the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bring to ruin or desolation by violent action

Words related to DEVASTATION

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Words that contain DEVASTATION

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How to use DEVASTATION in a sentence

• To give it too free rein means madness with no less devastation.
• Everywhere as Russians retreated they left a trail of utter devastation, causing the Teutons to march around burning cities, finding the country devoid of food or shelter.
• This is not a war of devastation, but one to give all within the control of its military and naval forces the advantages and blessings of enlightened civilization.
• The increasing devastation of the country, fire, and famine, the despair and complaints of the inhabitants, did not shake his resolution.
• Adam resolutely turned his back on the devastation and hurried on.
• The day broke, before I had completed the opening, and in ten minutes more the keepers would probably enter my apartment, and perceive the devastation I had left.
• Amid the universal devastation wild shrieks and despairing groans fill the air.
• A ghost-peopled dusk was crawling over the devastation and desolation that is Vimy, and in the distance the bare bones of St.
• Unhappy Austria for several years was a scene of devastation and misery.
• The earthquake was one of a series which carried destruction and devastation through the greater part of the East.
• They will thank God that they have come to prevent such a devastation on the soil of their own homeland.
• As late as 1297 a Genoese was appointed admiral of France in the Channel, and strongly urged the invasion of England and its devastation by fire and flame.
• The English, after some further devastation, returned home, and the Scots at once entered into a treaty with France, which had been at war with England since 1544.
• In executing these orders, I am sorry to add, that our people were hurried into acts of unnecessary cruelty and devastation.
• Kars watched the dreadful devastation from the camp.
• He had not observed the devastation of the prairie.
• That scourge scattered devastation wherever it spread.
• This it did that afternoon and the waters went out with a mighty roar, no doubt carrying devastation down through the valley.
• In the present report more attention is given to an estimate of damages than in the earlier work, and remedies by which devastation may be avoided are briefly considered.
• The very first shots produced terrible devastation.
• Wholesale plunder and devastation of the chief city of the revolt followed.
• At the same time other work was actively continued, and soon all trace of devastation disappeared from the plateau of Prospect Heights.
• These six pillars, which have hitherto bid defiance to time, devastation, and earthquakes, are supposed to be the loftiest and most magnificent in the world.
• They had grown tired of waiting, and after about ten minutes had gone on toward the scene of devastation.
• Defenceless infancy and decrepid age were alike disregarded in the general devastation which these ruffians had decreed should attend their course.
• So well had he been able to beat back every invasion of Virginia by the Union forces that he now thought to end the war by turning its tide of devastation into Pennsylvania.
• Europe as a whole could not allow this devastation of resources.

Similar words containing VASTA without suffix tion and without prefix de

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