Devastates vs Devastated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between devastates and devastated

is that devastates is third-person singular of devastate while devastated is past tense of devastate.

ruined, ravaged.

(head)

(devastate)

(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.

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(en adjective)

Ruined, ravaged

Extremely upset and shocked.

(head)

(devastate)