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    1. You are in a position to devastate a friend or devastate yourself or… cope and make the best of a situation


    2. This was going to devastate Sharon, and he had to be the one who stayed in


    3. “Well, the answer is simple; to do so would devastate your lands


    4. ” Where it actually puts me is in a place where I feel I have a pretty thorough understanding of the environment, from bacteria that break down matter to the earthquakes and tornados that destroy the land, the storms, hurricanes and tsunamis that devastate our shorelines, and all the roles that nature plays in between


    5. They devastate all twelve renegade Kleti during this single pass


    6. The renegades will return, and we”—waving his arm at his small band—“are too few to stop them alone, but with your help we can mount a surprise that could devastate them! We are armed, but you are not!” He drew his sword for emphasis


    7. could devastate them! We are armed, but you are not!” He drew his sword for emphasis


    8. which did the courtiers devastate


    9. but it will not devastate you


    10. Even damaged, if the battleship reached the planet, it could still devastate anything it could see

    11. Primitive peoples didn't have the technology to devastate


    12. The leather had been replaced a couple of times over the years, but this was the chair from which his grandfather led a small band of refugees to establish a colony which would later devastate a Swordsman assault


    13. already begun to devastate lion populations well before this


    14. Know that I served in Greece and that I have heard a lot about the Sarmatian raiders who devastate regularly the Thracian coast


    15. An accident of any type can devastate huge areas and no one is exempt from the radiation and its effects


    16. Adults try to bring home the point that this plague can devastate anyone, but there are ways in which it can be avoided


    17. It could devastate half of the Global Council by itself if given a chance


    18. It can devastate the lives of everyone in the vehicle,


    19. hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful


    20. This is something that would devastate our family, and we can't afford to have everyone we know learn of this, alright Mitch?" She looked at him with desperation in her eyes

    21. He knew if she were ordered to await a trial from in jail, it would imminently devastate her


    22. A bit over half of the asteroid missiles of the MJOLNIR had been expended during the war against the Zembelo regime two years ago, but the space battle station still had enough firepower to devastate a whole continent if need be, on top of having ultra high power laser batteries able to slice in two any spaceship


    23. on her because it would devastate Mark


    24. and tsunamis will devastate the coasts


    25. We are here to devastate Zulimistan and raze that to ground


    26. Satellites in space are also controlled from this small control room and here in this room you will see how my laser guns devastate Zulimistan…


    27. The news would devastate the group, and they were not there to help them


    28. According to Jack South’s interview with Bear News – if he were really telling the truth – there would be numerous hurricanes to devastate the U


    29. She is the ultimate liar! And she will devastate every living soul in Midgard with her finite ideas of rest


    30. �Who�s apparently employs a mad bomber to devastate the countryside

    31. When a new case of viral symptoms devastate China, the first reaction of the official, is to remain silent about it


    32. “Because I knew it would devastate you! I was trying to save you


    33. In this manner, he can acquire a profound understanding of himself and especially of his unconscious hatred towards the phallic mother (and Poseidon with his trident – a phallus that can devastate you if you are struck with it – represents this better than any other possible thing)


    34. Therefore, chance which could turn you rich overnight has nothing to do with your karma, in the same way; an accident which could devastate you overnight also has nothing to do with your karma


    35. again devastate the world


    36. God, it would devastate Rapunzel if Pascal died


    37. They have probes to detect tsunamis that will only devastate regions horrible, as it is it can’t compare to


    38. Sometimes things happen that devastate your life


    39. shock me and devastate me is if you told me you did not love me


    40. I hated myself when I thought that I allowed two men to devastate me in this way

    41. God warns them of a hailstorm that will devastate


    42. He could not hurt her that way, devastate her that way


    43. She said, "When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people


    44. He could no longer wait to devastate the tribe and put it under his territory


    45. The combination of higher inflation plus flat stock and bond markets can devastate your standard of living


    46. And as they are Hellenes themselves they will not devastate Hellas, nor will they burn houses, nor ever suppose that the whole population of a city--men, women, and children--


    47. Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses


    48. 1802---This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within fifteen miles of Gimmerton


    49. consistently make decisions that devastate their opponents


    50. —This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within fifteen miles of Gimmerton




    1. devastated … not only because she’d messed him about, but because he threw us out of the window because of her … y’see, I reckon he was hoping that we’d be reconciled … we were friends, him an’ me, best friends … he once said that any woman he married would have to accept that I came with the package, I reckon he thought that as Joanna was a friend of mine anyway, it would make the whole thing easier


    2. She was devastated


    3. God devastated Israel through a famine before sending fire upon Elijah’s sacrifice in 1 Kings 18


    4. Knume was devastated by that, and blamed himself because of all the drugs he'd done in Zhlindu


    5. She's trying to be busy and organised as usual but deep inside she is devastated


    6. Nevertheless, and in the privacy of her own salon, she was quite vocal in her support of the poor oppressed victims of foreign dictators and of those unfortunates in far off lands whose lives were devastated by fire, famine and flood


    7. lands whose lives were devastated by fire, famine and flood


    8. She would be devastated, he knew that for sure


    9. He’s still tall and slim and must have been quite a stunner when he was a young man … that said, he was devoted to my mother and devastated when she died


    10. I was devastated, it changed me for years, to this day

    11. I think I'll be devastated


    12. He delicately bandaged the devastated digit


    13. A child can feel devastated by a barrage of words that feel like an assault, even


    14. I was devastated to find her seated with her


    15. Manny knew that Ming was depressed but was devastated by his decision to end his life


    16. ‘What’s the point?’ howled the devastated nun


    17. I would feel torn and devastated for a while but not on the long run for I would have done what was sensible and right in the circumstances


    18. When she’d slipped into his bed last night he’d clearly mistaken her for Xonia, and that hurt! She felt devastated


    19. with nitro, it would have devastated a big


    20. Martin could tell he was devastated and said if Martin found him, that he, Dr

    21. When she and Guy left the club, she was devastated


    22. Once again the landscape changed and we began to see cottages and farmhouses that had been shelled and sometimes we would pass entire villages that had been devastated


    23. " She felt that he was as devastated as she was herself; his only daughter's life in shreds; her husband's life taken by some maniac of a drunken driver! He couldn't find the words to express his own bitter feelings


    24. I was devastated and almost lost faith, but I resigned myself to believe that this would pass, too


    25. And when they disappeared, I wouldn’t be devastated, because I would not be attached


    26. Devastated, I called the vet, sure the anesthesia tube had nicked her esophagus during surgery, and rushed her back


    27. And further, according to some college students recently studying history, during the outbreak of the Black Death that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, victims of that disease grew boobs on their necks


    28. Mexico devastated and bankrupt


    29. They were devastated, but they still had what they thought was a rational plan


    30. Khan looked devastated, betrayed

    31. Jonathan was devastated and could not believe what had


    32. Taking away their Lukrorian Bows had devastated the techniques that had served these people for hundreds of thousands of years


    33. Without a doubt the Captain was devastated


    34. The consuls passed out to see General Wheeler, pointing out that the destruction of Santiago would not harm Spain materially, since the city was looked upon as doomed; it could only destroy the homes and drive out the inhabitants to starve in a country devastated by Weylerism


    35. His parents were devastated but we could never find the one who secured the cable


    36. At the same time he was devastated about Stelze�s snake bite


    37. Thus says The Lord to all those who call of themselves Christian, yet never cease from pushing out the lip against The Lord’s anointed: Your error is very grievous! Hold your tongue! Lest all I have spoken concerning the scoffer and the wicked come upon you, leaving your houses utterly devastated and your sanctuaries in ruinous heaps! For it shall surely be accounted to you, in accordance with your every idle word, says The Lord your God


    38. Needless to say Sarah was devastated


    39. The family was devastated


    40. As they approached the car, Helen saw her sister was in a devastated state

    41. When the Americans pulled out, ending it all, and the long, bloody conflict had been won, he was devastated – crushed to his very core – to see the very people who had been his idols prove by their actions that it had all been a fraud


    42. " Joseph stiffened at the news, his thoughts turned to Ruby and how devastated she would be


    43. Ruby was devastated and Joseph didn't talk much with Ruby over the next few days


    44. “She goes tomorrow,” Johnson declared, feeling more emotionally devastated than his tone indicated


    45. This is known to produce what is described as ‘rampant decay’ in the baby teeth where the entire set upper and lower are devastated by tooth decay


    46. Monique was quietly devastated


    47. they sold it for devastated and offended us


    48. I was devastated for all of them


    49. According to him, the biblical parable must keep some historical truth, given the variety of Mesopotamian references about the terrible floods that devastated the shores of the Tigris and Euphrates in the late fourth millennium BC


    50. The idea was this: Those nations of Europe devastated by the war were encouraged to












































    1. Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants


    2. For any anthropologist who understands the cultural-physical origin of our species, the history of our exodus out of Africa; the place of our ancestors and knowledge of the tectonic history of volcanic action and earthquakes and huge catastrophic weather systems, of the downpour of torrential rains after huge volcano devastates hundreds of square miles of jungle, the pyroclastic could of poison gas and ash darkening the sky for weeks: and the time period of 30 million years, over which this was a normal condition in Africa… For anyone who know of the existence of the undead and their malevolent hatred of all Life… the writings of the Torah and the Talmud SCREAMS OUT THE TRUTH


    3. He destroys without mercy, and devastates without remorse; but the Pittsburgh riots, the New York mobs, and the Commune of San Francisco, belong to the white race


    1. devastating commentary on the NHS for example


    2. “It was alright but which one was Max?” was her unintentionally devastating critique


    3. The wear-and-tear that comes from these longer relationships can be quite devastating


    4. Failure to perceive the spiritual principles of the leadership involved in the eldership has led to many destructive, devastating, and disastrous results in too many churches


    5. She leveled him with a devastating blow


    6. This can be devastating at the best of times but even more so if you were really hoping for that


    7. She slew bug after bug, leaping and gracefully turning in mid-air only to come down in the midst of them swinging her sword with devastating results


    8. No! Denair had just confirmed what he had only half-guessed, but he also gave him devastating news


    9. The news was devastating to her


    10. Clearly, it left her self-confidence in tatters and her belief in people destroyed; poor Anna, it must be devastating to find the one person you ought to be able to trust abusing that trust

    11. The girl had described warfare with devastating weapons and artificially-bred monsters so nasty they had become legendary


    12. that the others were spared this devastating spectacle


    13. Believe it or not, fate still had one, devastating card


    14. It may very well be as devastating to us as it is to the undead


    15. She knew nothing of the man other than his devastating power, but after he had seen her soul, was there really any point in hiding from him? Was it even possible?


    16. what she wanted was his power – the secret of his immunity to the Plague, and his staff with its strange but devastating abilities


    17. ‘Consciousness’ that we are about to explore, with a focus Concerning word activation, being the singular word, in the General time of ‘now’ produced/selected from a matrix Of available possibilities, in relation to a ‘context,’ or rather, Possibly an infinite ‘set’ of intersecting contexts could possibly Have devastating effects if pursed beyond the here given Speculations; esp


    18. The story of Danny the Dumpster’s travails could be easily continued and amplified with much more depressing and devastating detail, but that likely is not necessary since the same kinds of stories—just changing the actors and scenarios—are to be found throughout the plains, hills, mountains, and valleys on every continent of our planet


    19. It rushed upon them, its devastating claws swiping and thrusting them both to the ground


    20. Some sort of low, barely audible voice in the back of her mind told her that she would need to recall those devastating steps of his

    21. By the time their 4 faces all turned to Lunarey, the closest one of them had already suffered a devastating punch to her face by Lunarey's hand


    22. Sometimes the loss of belief can be as devastating as a physical injury or the loss of something or someone we hold dear


    23. She offered a good-humored smirk and though the Imperial was still burdened by the fresh, devastating news as well as his own constant worries, he decided to take the Breton’s lead and proceed with a smile – weak as it may be


    24. Whatever pleasure he gained was moderated by a growing undercurrent of impatience, and whatever monies he won, when he won, was more than offset by the devastating impact that Mr Pinscher invariably had upon his larder


    25. kickboxing to create a devastating means of self defense


    26. could project the devastating plasma fire,


    27. devastating than anything he might say


    28. Perhaps it would be a more devastating cerebral comment


    29. In that respect, the raid is reminiscent of the 1968 Vietcong Tet Offensive in South Vietnam which, while a devastating setback militarily, was a huge psychological win for the Vietcong/North Vietnamese, due in no small part that after the offensive became public knowledge, Walter Cronkite (the most trusted man in America) declared the Vietnam War lost to the United States


    30. Though not as devastating as they could have been, Papa’s injuries were extensive, a concussion and five broken bones in his right leg, foot, and ankle

    31. And then, to go on and amass a fortune (several millions) as a director of Fannie May, while that organization and Freddie Mack were on their last legs, thanks to the egregious Community Reinvestment Act, fostered by Carter, and strengthened by Clinton, lays her bare as one of the most devastating females in power in all of American history


    32. Those responses make Clinton culpable in the 9/ll attack, as well as in two earlier devastating attacks on American embassies in Africa


    33. Regardless, the results have been devastating to both our democracy and our liberty


    34. The effect was devastating


    35. “Well, this is devastating, Tom


    36. consequences could be devastating


    37. “Well, the results can be devastating


    38. He thought of his life: his carefree childhood, awkward adolescence, detached university years, his destructive relationships, which had ended one by one because of his inability to relax and enjoy himself, his devastating love of Seraphia and his arrival at Salverford


    39. and screaming, replaying that devastating incident in the restaurant


    40. would be devastating in the confined environment of the FTL field,” she explained

    41. He said, ‘We have detected the presence of a technology which may have potentially devastating consequences


    42. My failure to leave the surface within two hours will trigger the most devastating response you could ever imagine


    43. The toxins had proven too devastating for her immune system to cope with


    44. The day I received the telegram in North Africa was very devastating for me as I lost control and cried for a long time


    45. They writhed, each groping for a devastating hold


    46. Most of the pieces were only a couple inches diameter, not large enough to make devastating projectiles


    47. This was a devastating earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded


    48. And Japan would shortly face a far more devastating enemy


    49. The Confederacy opened fire, starting the war that would be the most devastating in all of US history


    50. For middle age couples that are still raising families, who have children in college or carrying home mortgages, on the other hand, such reductions in salary can be devastating; especially for those who have grown accustomed to certain lifestyles













































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    Synonyms for "devastate"

    devastate desolate lay waste to ravage scourge waste pillage plunder ruin lay waste

    "devastate" definitions

    cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly


    overwhelm or overpower