devastation

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- her departure left him in utter devastation
• Derivationally related forms:
devastate
• Hypernyms:
feeling
2. plundering with excessive damage and destruction
• Syn:
ravaging
• Derivationally related forms:
devastate, ravage (for: ravaging)
• Hypernyms:
plundering, pillage, pillaging
3. the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
• Syn:
destruction
• Derivationally related forms:
devastate, destroy (for: destruction)
• Hypernyms:
termination, ending, conclusion
• Hyponyms:
disaster, kill, laying waste, ruin, ruining,
ruination, wrecking, razing, leveling, tearing down, demolishing,
annihilation, obliteration, decimation, self-destruction, neutralization, neutralisation,
sabotage, extermination, liquidation, holocaust, demolition, spoliation,
vandalism, hooliganism, malicious mischief
4. an event that results in total destruction
• Syn:
desolation
• Derivationally related forms:
desolate (for: desolation), devastate
• Hypernyms:
ruin, ruination
5. the state of being decayed or destroyed
• Syn:
desolation
• Derivationally related forms:
desolate (for: desolation), devastate
• Hypernyms:
deterioration, impairment
• Hyponyms:
ruin, ruination, blight

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  destruction, ravaging, desolation