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Devastate vs Vandalise - What's the difference?

devastate | vandalise |

As verbs the difference between devastate and vandalise

is that devastate is to ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest while vandalise is .

devastate

English

Verb

(devastat)
  • To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
  • To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
  • To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
  • vandalise

    Alternative forms

    * vandalize

    Verb

    (vandalis)
  • To needlessly (l) other people’s (l) or (l); to commit (l).
  • Derived terms

    * vandalism, vandalisation, vandalization