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devastating

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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: devastating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: causing devastation

Synonyms:

annihilating, calamitous, desolating, destructive, disastrous, mortifying, overwhelming
Main Entry: devastating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trenchant

Synonyms:

biting, caustic, crushing, incisive
Main Entry: calamitous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disastrous; tragic

Synonyms:

adverse, afflictive, blighting, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deadly, deplorable, devastating, dire, fatal, grievous, harmful, heartbreaking, lamentable, messy, pernicious, regrettable, ruinous, unfavorable, unfortunate, woeful

Antonyms:

blessed, comforting, favorable, fortunate, happy, joyous, wonderful
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
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