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What does devastate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word devastate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
  2. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
  3. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
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In 1908 the English novelist H. G. Wells could imagine an armada of German dirigibles crossing the Atlantic to devastate New York City.
Opening up parts of Queensland's Cape York to mining could devastate the famous Quinkan rock art.
Just five kilograms of plutonium, in the wrong hands, could devastate a city.
Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
Viticulture flourished despite the frequent civil wars, which were on too small a scale to devastate the Tuscan countryside.
Japhet hit northern Mozambique last week and is the second cyclone to devastate the southern African country this year.

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