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Devastated vs Devastate - What's the difference?

devastated | devastate |

As verbs the difference between devastated and devastate

is that devastated is (devastate) while 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.

As an adjective devastated

is ruined, ravaged.

devastated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Ruined, ravaged
  • Extremely upset and shocked.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (devastate)

    • 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.

    • Related terms

    * devastation

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