[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

devastate \dev"astate\ ?; 277, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   devastated; p. pr.  vb. n. devastating. l. devastatus,
   p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste,
   vastus waste. see vast.
   to lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
   1913 webster

         whole countries . . . were devastated.   --macaulay.

   syn: to waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder;
        pillage.
        1913 webster
see also:
devastated devastating vast 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

devastating \devastating\ adj.
   1. highly critical; making light of; as, a devastating
      portrait of human folly.

   syn: annihilating, withering.
        wordnet 1.5

   2. causing or capable of causing complete destruction; as, a
      devastating hurricane.

   syn: annihilative.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

devastating
     adj 1: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a
            devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments
            inflated i've a withering reply"- w.s.gilbert syn: annihilating,
             withering
     2: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;
        "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating
        hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" syn: annihilative,
         annihilating, withering
     3: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in
        combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection";
        "bone-crushing" syn: crushing
see also:
annihilating withering annihilative crushing 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

79 moby thesaurus words for "devastating":
   acid, baneful, beaming, bewitching, bitter, blooming, bright,
   brilliant, calamitous, captivating, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
   catastrophic, caustic, consuming, consumptive, dazzling, deadly,
   demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying,
   destructive, disastrous, divine, doomful, enthralling, fatal,
   fateful, fratricidal, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous,
   heavenly, incisive, internecine, keen, killing, mordant, nihilist,
   nihilistic, overpowering, penetrating, radiant, ravaging, raving,
   ravishing, resplendent, ruining, ruinous, sarcastic, sardonic,
   satirical, savage, self-destructive, shining, sparkling,
   spectacular, spellbinding, splendid, splendorous, splendrous,
   stunning, sublime, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, telling,
   trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, vitriolic,
   wasteful, wasting, withering

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