devastate
verb (used with object)
to lay waste; render desolate.
devastator
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a word derived from
devastate.
Example Sentences
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Rather than being either a unique global inspiration or a unique global devastator, perhaps in the 18th century America was just not the only game in town.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
She sent little darts of exquisite pain through him by constantly alluding to the real devastator as “that nice Mr. Fairy-fax.”
From What's-His-Name by Harrison Fisher
Why are you such a dreadful devastator, Miss Cardross?...
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The destroyer of heaven, the devastator of the earth,—such is my majesty.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
Again he discovered that the devastator was a microscopic destroyer.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
