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What does devastate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word devastate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. 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.
  2. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
  3. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
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Dismantle, annihilate and devastate the whole swelling, putrescent edifice of surfing once and for all.
Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
They do not need to hit the center of the target to devastate conventionally armed ground forces.
A villager has voiced an emotional plea to stop a proposed road scheme, which he says will devastate his wife's business.
Viticulture flourished despite the frequent civil wars, which were on too small a scale to devastate the Tuscan countryside.
Opening up parts of Queensland's Cape York to mining could devastate the famous Quinkan rock art.

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