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  devastating \devastating\ adj.
     1. highly critical; making light of; as, a devastating
        portrait of human folly.
  
     Syn: annihilating, withering.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. causing or capable of causing complete destruction; as, a
        devastating hurricane.
  
     Syn: annihilative.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  Devastate \Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     Devastated; p. pr. & vb. n. Devastating.] [L. devastatus,
     p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste,
     vastus waste. See Vast.]
     To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Whole countries . . . were devastated.   --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder;
          pillage.
          [1913 Webster]

  Devastate \Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     Devastated; p. pr. & vb. n. Devastating.] [L. devastatus,
     p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste,
     vastus waste. See Vast.]
     To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
  
           Whole countries . . . were devastated.   --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder;
          pillage.

  devastating
       adj 1: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a
              devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments
              inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating,
               withering]
       2: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;
          "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating
          hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative,
           annihilating, withering]
       3: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in
          combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection";
          "bone-crushing" [syn: crushing]

  devastating
     a.
     causing devastation
     vb.
     (present participle of en devastate nocat=1)

  devastating
     a.
     causing devastation
     vb.
     (present participle of en devastate nocat=1)

  devastating
     a.
     causing devastation
     vb.
     (present participle of en devastate nocat=1)

  devastating
     a.
     causing devastation
     vb.
     (present participle of en devastate nocat=1)

  devastating
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm d evastat ing e)

  devastating
     Engelska a.
     förödande, ödeläggande

  Devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/
  التدمير

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  опустошителен
  causing devastation

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  drtivý

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  ničivý

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  devastující

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  zničující

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/
  vernichtend, völlig zerstörend
   see: devastate sth., devastated, devastate the economy, devastate sb.'s hope/life, devastate a region, devastate an enemy
  

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/
  eine Stadt/ein Land usw. verwüstend, eine Stadt in Schutt und Asche legend
     Synonyms: ravaging, sacking, leaving in ruins a town/country, laying waste to a town/country etc.
  
   see: devastate, ravage, sack, leave in ruins a town/country, lay waste to a town/country etc., devastated, ravaged, sacked, left in ruins a town/country, laid waste to a town/country etc., The town had been laid waste.
  

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/
  
  ολέθριος, καταστρεπτικός

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  tuhoava
  causing devastation

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  1. उजाड़ने~वाला
        "Orissa has been hit by devastating cyclonic storm."

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/
  1. pusztító
  2. ellenállhatatlan
  3. gyilkos
  4. elsöprô

  devastating /dˈɛvɪstˌeɪtɪŋ/ 
  förödande
  causing devastation

  
/ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtɪŋ/

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "devastating":
     acid, baneful, beaming, bewitching, bitter, blooming, bright,
     brilliant, calamitous, captivating, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
     catastrophic, caustic, consuming, consumptive, dazzling, deadly,
     demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying,
     destructive, disastrous, divine, doomful, enthralling, fatal,
     fateful, fratricidal, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous,
     heavenly, incisive, internecine, keen, killing, mordant, nihilist,
     nihilistic, overpowering, penetrating, radiant, ravaging, raving,
     ravishing, resplendent, ruining, ruinous, sarcastic, sardonic,
     satirical, savage, self-destructive, shining, sparkling,
     spectacular, spellbinding, splendid, splendorous, splendrous,
     stunning, sublime, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, telling,
     trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, vitriolic,
     wasteful, wasting, withering
  
  

  adj．破坏性的