Word Meanings - DEVASTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEVASTATE)

• Desolate Waste
• spoil
• sack
• plunder
• pillage
• ravage
• devastate
• depopulate
• Despoil
• Strip
• denude
• rob
• havoc
• spoliate
• Ravage Spoil
• despoil
• destroy
• desolate
• ransack
• waste
• ruin
• overrun
• Spoil
• Plunder
• strip
• corrupt
• vitiate
• mar
• deteriorate
• Waste
• Ruin
• impair
• consume
• squander
• dissipate
• throw away
• diminish
• lavish
• pine
• decay
• attenuate
• dwindle
• shrivel
• wither
• wane

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEVASTATE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven
• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare
• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify

Related words: (words related to DEVASTATE)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.