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Lavage vs Devastate - What's the difference?

lavage | devastate |

As verbs the difference between lavage and devastate

is that lavage is (medicine) to wash a hollow organ 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 a noun lavage

is a washing.

lavage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A washing.
  • (medicine) A washing of a hollow organ.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (medicine) To wash a hollow organ
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    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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