- blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted - made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
- lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
--1 is one way to destroy, ruin
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun devastation1, noun devastation3, noun devastation4, noun devastation5
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- devastate - overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
--2 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun devastation2
The bad news will devastate him