Crossword-Solution: DEVASTATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Devastate | v. t. | To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “DEVASTATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| What tornadoes do | 1 answer |
| Overwhelm, as with grief | 1 answer |
| Hung on to (rev.) London gallery = Ravage | 1 answer |
| destroy-lay-waste | 2 answers |
| Affect severely | 3 answers |
| depopulate | 6 answers |
| lay waste | 10 answers |
| Raze | 15 answers |
| depredate | 17 answers |
| Pillage | 22 answers |
| Decimate | 25 answers |
| shatter | 27 answers |
| MAKE destitute | 27 answers |
| Ransack | 29 answers |
| Despoil | 31 answers |
| MAKE raid | 32 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| Clobber | 40 answers |
| Raid | 40 answers |
| Overwhelm | 41 answers |
| exterminate | 41 answers |
| MAKE flatter | 42 answers |
| dilapidate | 42 answers |
| deflower | 44 answers |
| annihilate | 45 answers |
| Ravage | 47 answers |
| chasten | 52 answers |
| Impair | 52 answers |
| uglify | 52 answers |
| Desecrate | 53 answers |
| Demolish | 53 answers |
| Sack | 54 answers |
| Sadden | 56 answers |
| make unfit | 57 answers |
| MAKE harsh noise | 57 answers |
| Mar | 57 answers |
| Damage | 59 answers |
| Havoc | 59 answers |
| Take apart | 59 answers |
| Devour | 64 answers |
| Wreck | 66 answers |
| Depress | 66 answers |
| Destroy | 69 answers |
| Spoil | 78 answers |
| Disturb | 79 answers |
| Waste | 83 answers |
| Total | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEVASTATE (5)
And the wild things in the wild mountains stopped in their hunting, and trembled at this new and awful voice, while down in the desert the children of the wilderness came out of their goatskin tents and looked toward the mountains, wondering what new and savage scourge had come to devastate their flocks.
And as they are Hellenes themselves they will not devastate Hellas, nor will they burn houses, not even suppose that the whole population of a city--men, women, and children--are equally their enemies, for they know that the guilt of war is always confined to a few persons and that the many are their friends.
Linton Heathcliff, had she and I struck up an attachment, as her good nurse desired, and migrated together into the stirring atmosphere of the town!” CHAPTER XXXII 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.
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—are equally their enemies, for they know that the guilt of war is always confined to a few persons and that the many are their friends.
With her it was pure, cold-blooded business, this luring of the land-hungry to a land whose fertility was at best problematical; who would, for a price, turn loose the victims of her greed to devastate what little grazing ground was left.
Quotes with DEVASTATE (3)
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up.
The greatest tragedy in your life will not be the death of a loved one or a natural disaster; those things hurt like hell and devastate to the core. But loss like that is part of life. What’s not necessary and is therefore most tragic is the demise of your truest identity, your dying before you’re dead, the moments when you let the words and judgments of others define who you are instead of rising above that pain to be the person you were meant to be. No matter what has happe…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1983–2022).