DEVASTATE


Meaning of DEVASTATE in English

(~s, devastating, ~d)

If something ~s an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.

A few days before, a fire had ~d large parts of Windsor Castle.

= ravage, wreck

VERB: V n

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