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Word: devastate
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Meaning:
Verb:
- Break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
- Destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- 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.
Source: Wiktionary
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