transcription, транскрипция: [ devəsteɪtɪŋ ]
1.
If you describe something as devastating , you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.
Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.
ADJ : usu ADJ n [ emphasis ]
2.
You can use devastating to emphasize that something is very shocking, upsetting, or terrible.
The diagnosis was devastating. She had cancer.
ADJ [ emphasis ]
3.
You can use devastating to emphasize that something or someone is very impressive.
...a devastating display of galloping and jumping...
ADJ [ emphasis ]
• dev‧as‧tat‧ing‧ly
Its advertising is devastatingly successful...
ADV : usu ADV adj / -ed