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Synonyms for devastate

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Synonyms for devastate

to destroy completely as or as if by conquering

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Synonyms for devastate

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

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overwhelm or overpower

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Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:-that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses.
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The centuries, the revolutions, which at least devastate with impartiality and grandeur, have been joined by a cloud of school architects, licensed, sworn, and bound by oath; defacing with the discernment and choice of bad taste, substituting the chicorées of Louis XV.
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A tragedy devastates Juana's family, causing her father to cross the border to el otro lado.
Across a Hundred Mountains
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