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Sorrow vs Devastation - What's the difference?

sorrow | devastation |

As nouns the difference between sorrow and devastation

is that sorrow is (uncountable) unhappiness, woe while devastation is devastation, destruction.

As a verb sorrow

is to feel or express grief.

sorrow

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
  • * Rambler
    • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
  • (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
    • Parting is such sweet sorrow .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To feel or express grief.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
    • ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
  • To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
  • *, II.12:
    • It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.

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    devastation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of devastating]], or the state of being devastated; a [[lay waste, laying waste.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
  • Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.