Vanquish vs Devastate - What's the difference?
vanquish | devastate |
To defeat, to overcome.
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
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.
As verbs the difference between vanquish and devastate
is that vanquish is to defeat, to overcome 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.vanquish
English
Verb
(es)- They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
- This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.