Dictionary entry details
• DEVASTATION (noun)
Meaning:
The state of being decayed or destroyed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
desolation; devastation
Hypernyms ("devastation" is a kind of...):
deterioration; impairment (a symptom of reduced quality or strength)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devastation"):
ruin; ruination (an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction)
blight (a state or condition being blighted)
Meaning:
The feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Context example:
her departure left him in utter devastation
Hypernyms ("devastation" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Meaning:
An event that results in total destruction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
devastation; desolation
Hypernyms ("devastation" is a kind of...):
ruin; ruination (an event that results in destruction)
Meaning:
Plundering with excessive damage and destruction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
ravaging; devastation
Hypernyms ("devastation" is a kind of...):
pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)
Meaning:
The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
destruction; devastation
Hypernyms ("devastation" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devastation"):
disaster (an act that has disastrous consequences)
hooliganism; malicious mischief; vandalism (willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others)
spoliation ((law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence)
demolition (the act of demolishing)
holocaust (an act of great destruction and loss of life)
extermination; liquidation (the act of exterminating)
sabotage (a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged)
neutralisation; neutralization ((euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation))
self-destruction (the act of destroying yourself)
decimation (destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot))
annihilation; obliteration (destruction by annihilating something)
demolishing; leveling; razing; tearing down (complete destruction of a building)
laying waste; ruin; ruination; ruining; wrecking (destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined)
kill (the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile)
