devastating

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devastating

adjective more devastating · most devastating

  1. Causing devastation. Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of devastate

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: withering, destructive, annihilative, crushing, disrespectful, annihilating, ruinous, damaging, detrimental, harmful, deleterious, damaged, wrecked, disastrous, calamitous, wrecking

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adj causing devastation

Españoldevastador
Portuguêsdevastador
Françaisdévastateur
Deutschverheerend
Ελληνικάσυντριπτικός syntriptikós

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@misc{devastating_2026,
  title = {devastating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/devastating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}