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    devastation


    1. All he would see was the devastation


    2. being jobless and the eventual financial devastation that


    3. He is warning that the time is now and at hand when destruction and devastation is coming


    4. I saw the devastation en-route


    5. She listened to the story unfold with a growing sense of unease and disappointment, a sense that rapidly turned to despair and utter devastation when the pictures cut to the image of an ecstatic twelve year old from Grimsby who would be attending a gala bash in London the following weekend where the boy and his band would finally be unveiled


    6. that rapidly turned to despair and utter devastation when the


    7. devastation that had been reported in the newspapers afterwards


    8. The emotional maelstrom that he is feeling is nothing to the devastation that his partner must be enduring


    9. “The devastation in Agrea was of mammoth proportions,” Briz


    10. The devastation in those words paralyzed him

    11. devastation this time was so great that some believe it


    12. Now, along the outskirts of the devastation, Lady Katrina moved through the shadows of toppled walls and skeletal structures of scorched framework, keeping her black wig fixed to her head by tugging it downward


    13. Having heard his speeches, heard him proclaim his understanding of the Destroyer's power and his ability to teach the man to control it, Katrina's mind began spinning with the ways in which she would direct such devastation


    14. Brice took his eyes off the devastation below and drifted toward the man


    15. He could not understand what gave her such hope, such drive in the face of so much devastation and disappointment


    16. Rex was watching the devastation on his


    17. The inhabitants of the extensive, but defenceles plains of Scythia or Tartary, have been frequently united under the dominion of the chief of some conquering horde or clan; and the havock and devastation of Asia have always signalized their union


    18. devastation wrought by the simple act of getting caught up in the corner of a banquet's tablecloth


    19. The ruined tower of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebiéres stood out like a sentry and a hundred feet above our heads the Madonna or ‘Lady of the Limp’ as she was known held out her precious child over the square and devastation below as though to say look what you are doing


    20. “You know despite all of that devastation, I hear that IKEA are

    21. oak beams and wattle and daub and saw the devastation caused


    22. The Daughter of Thor shall be reborn of devastation and turmoil, of battle and carnage, of Darkness and the Light


    23. About the same time, another whaleship, the Richmond, also arrived with fifty-two survivors of the devastation in the Bering Sea


    24. Such devastation, wanton massacre, sick genocide


    25. Her mind shied away from the potential for widespread devastation, the utter vileness of the idea


    26. I had to admit to myself that it was in fact a very stupid thing to have come here, to this place of ruin and devastation


    27. I looked around and could not believe the devastation


    28. Deep inside me, I was very skeptical that I would find anyone still alive, this after witnessing the devastation and hearing the horror stories from survivors of the death camps


    29. Japan faced more devastation and shock from conventional bombing than the A-bombs ever wrought


    30. Through the little light that shone from the moon, I could clearly see the devastation from the bombardment of the city

    31. Everywhere you looked, there were signs of devastation in the background


    32. Pain and indignation may have blinded momentarily the Spanish voters, but by punishing the government, in fact they have also congratulated, applauded and emboldened those perverse terrorists whose only purpose consists in causing devastation and eliminating lives


    33. The magnitude of the devastation focused the world’s attention on the Nicaraguan capital as rescue efforts began


    34. It remains to be seen which Bush will be more remembered for, devastation in the Mideast and the end of American empire, or lives saved in Africa


    35. The devastation and suddenness of death in such a small intimate group was eventually too much to overcome and we would last only a little over a year


    36. Fifty-two tornadoes struck the Midwest states of the US, causing devastation in their path


    37. This theory gains added corroboration in the discoveries made in places far removed from this scene of possibly deeply buried devastation


    38. Broken trees were strewn around amongst the other devastation everywhere they looked


    39. ’ He had seen, in the dull glare, which way was up and which way was down and where he floated in relation to the walls and floor, but the chaos and devastation he observed in that short glimpse shook his nerves to the core


    40. I desperately sought to stretch my grasp of even the smallest portion of that which passed before me as in a whirlwind without devastation

    41. To her devastation, the room was empty


    42. When a miscarriage occurs there is total devastation and turmoil, both physical and emotional for both parents and they tend to make wrong choices in this dreadful nightmare


    43. Crashing: Total devastation and swift destruction


    44. Ashes: Turning from sins; devastation; total death of the old life; consumed; mourning; sorrow; dejection; victory over hardship; to be worthless;


    45. showing total metamorphosis; deceit; afflictions; devastation; to recall something from the past better left alone; used for miracles and


    46. Spirit; judgment; sudden disaster or devastation; testing; trial at the hand of others; satanic activity


    47. The confusion of the forced rapid withdrawal, and the devastation to their number caused by it will give us an opportunity to slip you back into your realm unnoticed,” was his response


    48. “How is it that the Zhen plague struck your village with such devastation? It has become little more than a nuisance in the south


    49. Puzzling over this helped distract me only slightly from my devastation at being separated from Carlotta only a year and half after finally finding her


    50. “If the Plate comes down, there’ll be a lot of devastation










































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    Synonyms for "devastation"

    destruction devastation ravaging desolation ruin decay spoliation decline loss diminution dissipation

    "devastation" definitions

    the state of being decayed or destroyed


    the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed


    an event that results in total destruction


    plundering with excessive damage and destruction


    the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists