To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
1 Last year, auto supporters said an industry collapse would devastate the economy.
2 Even today, however, a Washington-Moscow confrontation could devastate the entire northern hemisphere.
3 They also said setting import tariffs at zero would devastate Britain's farmers.
4 They are fearful any extension to restrictions could devastate the region's economy.
5 Collectively it creates a drop in demand, which can devastate economic growth.
6 Environmentalists argue it will devastate a rich, biodiverse nation with far-reaching consequences.
7 It threatens to devastate the Gulf region's multibillion-dollar fishing and tourist industries.
8 In these ways, they can withstand impacts that devastate other marine species.
9 They'll be in a position to detonate their mines and devastate everything.
10 I know that this letter will devastate you-notonly emotionally, but financially.
11 Even a small fire can devastate the structural integrity of the cathedral.
12 She knew this would devastate them, but it was the only option.
13 The capacity for technic intelligence to devastate a world was shocking, nightmarish.
14 He could devastate Salusa Secundus, but that would harm him as well.
15 Hampton, having detached Colonel Clarke to devastate Missisquoi Bay, prepared to advance.
16 Cross-fertilization could devastate conventional and organic growers' businesses, the critics said.
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