| 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: | finished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, used up |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, devastated, done, done for, done in, drained, empty, exhausted, gone, liquidated, lost, played out, ruined, spent, through, undone, washed up, wiped out, wrecked |
Antonyms: |
held, kept, saved, stored |
| Main Entry: | grief-stricken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, sorrowful |
Synonyms: |
anguished, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, devastated, distressed, down, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, hurting, inconsolable, melancholy, miserable, morose, overcome, troubled, unhappy, woebegone |
| 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 |