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Definition of devastating : of Devastate

Synonyms:

withering, crushing, sarcastic, biting, ironic, caustic, disrespectful, incisive, overwhelming, annihilative, trenchant

deadly, detrimental, calamitous, injurious, destructive, damaging, catastrophic, harmful, deleterious, disastrous

disintegrating, laying waste, smashing, pulverizing, vaporizing, destroying, decimating, flattening, ripping to shreds, abolishing, tearing down, eradicating, knocking down, dismantling, atomizing, leveling, demolishing, razing, extirpating, desolating, exterminating, wrecking, bulldozing, annihilating, mowing down

Usage examples:

• The most plausible supposition would seem to be that a devastating famine must have been the fatal agent. - "The Pearl of India", Maturin M. Ballou.
• For them it is entertainment, and as such it is devastating. - "Psychology and Social Sanity", Hugo Münsterberg.
• Their devastating process is called disease, but they never begin their work till the being they attack has either wasted a vital opportunity or neglected a vital necessity. - "The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance", Marie Corelli.