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devastate

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aadeesttvStarts with DEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. overwhelm or overpower

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin dēvastātus, perfect passive participle of dēvastō (“to lay waste, devastate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)); from dē- (augmentative prefix) + vastō (“to destroy, lay waste”). See vast. First attested in 1638.

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  • Halifax in Canada was devastated by a ship exploding in 1917. SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.

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