Synonyms:
destruction, devastation
Meaning: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
Synonyms:
ravaging, devastation
Meaning: plundering with excessive damage and destruction
Synonyms:
devastation, desolation
Meaning: an event that results in total destruction
Synonyms:
devastation
Meaning: the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; "her departure left him in utter devastation"
Synonyms:
devastation, desolation
Meaning: the state of being decayed or destroyed
Usage examples
The devastation would be indescribable.
The convicts on Prospect Heights! that was disaster, devastation, ruin.
So, as they raced across the area of devastation, the face of Sarka became calm again.
With one wild glance at the scene of devastation and anger, William turned and fled through the wood.
Planting himself on this position, he commenced the devastation and bloodshed which followed to effect our subjugation.
Yet, Sarka knew, remembering the murmuring of the blue column as it came out of the cone, all this devastation had been caused in almost absolute silence.
On one side might be seen half a dozen old monks, stripping a modern professor; on another, there was sad devastation carried into the ranks of modern dramatic writers.
And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that survived the massacre.