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devastate

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Main Entry: devastate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: demolish, destroy

Synonyms:

depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devour, do one in, lay waste, level, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, raze, ruin, sack, smash, spoil, spoliate, stamp out, take apart, total*, trash*, waste, wipe off map, wreck

Antonyms:

build, construct, enrich, help, improve
Main Entry: consume
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: destroy

Synonyms:

annihilate, crush, decay, demolish, devastate, eat up, exhaust, expend, extinguish, lay waste, overwhelm, ravage, raze, ruin, suppress, waste, wreck

Antonyms:

build, construct
Main Entry: demolish
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: destroy; consume

Synonyms:

annihilate, break, bulldoze, burst, crack, crush, decimate, defeat, devastate, devour, dilapidate, dismantle, eat, flatten, gobble up, knock down, level, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pulverize, put away, put in toilet, raze, ruin, sink, smash, take apart, take out, tear down, torpedo, total*, trash*, undo, wax, wipe off map, wrack, wreck

Antonyms:

build, construct, fix, produce, rebuild, repair, restore
Main Entry: desecrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abuse, violate

Synonyms:

befoul, blaspheme, commit sacrilege, contaminate, defile, depredate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, dishonor, make lose face, mess up*, pervert, pillage, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, sack, spoil, spoliate, waste

Antonyms:

honor, praise, sanctify
Main Entry: desolate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ravage, destroy

Synonyms:

depopulate, depredate, desecrate, despoil, devastate, devour, lay low, lay waste, pillage, plunder, ruin, sack, spoliate, waste
Notes: lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad

Antonyms:

build, construct, improve
Main Entry: despoil
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ravage, destroy

Synonyms:

denude, depopulate, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, spoliate, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck

Antonyms:

build, construct, improve
Main Entry: harry
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pester, annoy

Synonyms:

attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, chivy, depredate, devastate, disturb, fret, gnaw, harass, hassle, irk, irritate, lay waste, molest, persecute, perturb, pillage, plague, plunder, ravage, sack, tease, torment, trouble, upset, vex, worry

Antonyms:

aid, assist, help, support
Main Entry: level
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: destroy, demolish

Synonyms:

bring down, bulldoze, devastate, down*, drop, equalize, fell, flatten, floor, ground, knock down, knock over, lay low, mow, pull down, raze, ruin, smooth, tear down, waste*, wreck

Antonyms:

build, construct
Main Entry: pillage
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plunder, destroy

Synonyms:

appropriate, arrogate, confiscate, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, gut, invade, lay waste, lift*, loot, maraud, nab, pilfer, pinch*, purloin, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, rob, ruin, sack, spoil, spoliate, steal, strip, thieve, trespass, waste

Antonyms:

protect, safeguard
Main Entry: plunder
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ravage, steal

Synonyms:

appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip

Antonyms:

give, receive
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