devastate
81waste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Gradual loss or decay Nouns 1. waste, wastage; dissipation; dispersion; ebb; leakage, loss; wear and tear; extravagance, wastefulness, prodigality, conspicuous consumption; waste of time; jeunesse dorée; …
82destroy — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bring to nothing] Syn. ruin, demolish, exterminate, raze, annihilate, tear down, throw down, plunder, ransack, pillage, eradicate, do away with, overthrow, cause the downfall of, devastate, swallow up, butcher, extirpate …
83vast — [16] Latin vastus originally meant ‘empty, unoccupied, deserted’. The sense ‘huge’, in which English borrowed it, is a secondary semantic development. Another metaphorical route took it to ‘ravaged, destroyed’, in which sense it lies behind… …
84devastating — 1630s, prp. adj. from DEVASTATE (Cf. devastate). Trivial use by 1889 …
85desolate — 1. adjective 1) the desolate prairie Syn: bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim; wild, inhospitable; deserted, uninhabited, godforsaken, abandoned, unpeopled, untenanted, empty, barren; unfrequented, unvisited …
86destroy — verb 1) their offices were destroyed by bombing Syn: demolish, knock down, level, raze (to the ground), fell; wreck, ruin, shatter; blast, blow up, dynamite, explode, bomb Ant: build …
87ruin — 1. noun 1) the buildings were saved from ruin Syn: disintegration, decay, disrepair, dilapidation, ruination; destruction, demolition, wreckage Ant: preservation, reconstruction 2) (ruins) …
88shatter — verb 1) the glasses shattered Syn: smash, break, splinter, crack, fracture, fragment, disintegrate, shiver; informal bust 2) the announcement shattered their hopes Syn: destroy, wreck, ruin …
89waste — [c]/weɪst / (say wayst) verb (wasted, wasting) –verb (t) 1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail; squander: to waste money; to waste time; to waste effort; to waste words. 2. to fail or neglect to use …
90vast — [16] Latin vastus originally meant ‘empty, unoccupied, deserted’. The sense ‘huge’, in which English borrowed it, is a secondary semantic development. Another metaphorical route took it to ‘ravaged, destroyed’, in which sense it lies behind… …
