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Definition: Devastated |
DevastatedAdjective1. Made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "devastated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonyms: DevastatedSynonyms: blasted (adj), desolate (adj), desolated (adj), ravaged (adj), ruined (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Devastated |
| English words defined with "devastated": bomb site ♦ Coventry ♦ devastate, Divast ♦ entire ♦ full ♦ total. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "devastated": Devastate. (references) |
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Screenplays | Water scorches like acid, and fledglings are devastated by sunlight's touch I would have to modify my tactics to suit my foes (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'm devastated, too. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Moneypenny, I'm devastated. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Devastated City (1902) | |
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 | Neighbors and friends work to remove debris around remains of a farmhouse. Large tornado devastated area. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Many neighborhoods in Los Alamos, NM were devastated by the Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA. |
 | Measured drawing delineated by Robert G. Higginbotham, 1961. (Reproduction Number: HABS, AK,17-SITKA,1- Sheet 5 of 6) St. Michael's Cathedral, the center of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, was completed in 1848. In 1942 it became the first building in Alaska measured by HABS. Unfortunately, the Cathedral was destroyed by a fire that devastated downtown Sitka on January 2, 1966. The HABS drawings served as the basis for the reconstruction of the church. In this instance, the HABS documentation was the most complete and reliable source of information on the destroyed building, thus serving as a form of protection from catastrophic loss. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Devastated St. Lo now communication center, St. Lo, France / Acme p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Andrew Lopez, war pool correspondent.. |
 | Refugees which come into town from devastated districts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tobacco fields devastated by the Connecticut River near Northampton, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Logging and fire have devastated this once virgin stand of fir, spruce and cedar along the Yachats River, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The devastated urban district immediately following the earthquake disaster. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A View looking northwest, from the mouth of a coal pit, showing the devastated coal mining regions of Northern, France. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (f) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all this |
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Health | It devastated the invaders of the Roman Empire. (references) | |
Moreover, it is the neurotransmitter used commonly by neurons in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex--regions devastated by Alzheimer's disease. (references) | ||
This is important because acetylcholine is crucial in the formation of memories and is used commonly by neurons in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex – regions devastated by AD. This discovery about acetylcholine, which occurred in the mid-1970s, led to many studies on the cells that use acetylcholine and the enzymes and other proteins that take part in its manufacture or activity – a network known as the cholinergic system. (references) | ||
Business | Angola and Mozambique should be among Africa's wealthiest countries, but they have been devastated by war. In southern Africa, only South Africa and Botswana are ranked as upper-middle income countries, Namibia as, middle-income, and the rest as low-income countries. (references) | |
Economic History | Iraq | The Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) devastated the economy of Iraq. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | The private and public sectors of the economy were devastated. (references) | |
Latvia | By May 22, 1919 the resurgent German Army occupied and devastated Riga for several days. (references) | |
Human Rights | Croatia | Many ethnic Serb returnees also were unable to move into looted and devastated homes that the Government defined as habitable. (references) |
Minorities | Equatorial Guinea | The Fang dominated the united independent state; during the first decade after independence, misrule and repression by Obiang's uncle, Macias Nguema, reduced the country's population by approximately one-third and devastated the economy. (references) |
Political Economy | Somalia | Livestock is the most important component of the Somali economy, and the ban has harmed further an already devastated economy. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Occupational safety and health regulations generally are ignored because of the demands and constraints imposed by an economy devastated by war. (references) |
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Dennis Miller | Most religious zealots start out simply as people devastated by tragic circumstances and left groping for answers. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Dropping prices and the loss of foreign markets have devastated too many family farmers. |
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| "Devastated" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.59% of the time. "Devastated" is used about 464 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.59% | 309 | 16,435 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.97% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.72% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.72% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 464 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "devastated": be devastated ♦ blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "devastated": flood-devastated, war-devastated. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
devastated | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "devastated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shkretuar (impoverished). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опустошен (waste). (various references) | |
Chinese | 摧残 (Devastate, Devastating). (various references) | |
Czech | zpustošený (wasted). (various references) | |
French | dévastai, dévastée, dévasté, dévastèrent, dévasta. (various references) | |
German | verwüstete (desolated, ravaged), verheerte. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמם (desolate, forsaken, infertile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tönkretett (ravaged), elpusztított (waste, wasted). (various references) | |
Italian | disastrato (badly hit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 荒れ地 (devastated or waste land). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あれち (devastated or waste land). (various references) | |
Korean | 유린하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evastatedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | devastado (waste, wrecked), desolado (desolate), deserto (desert), ocupado (busy), inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, fallow, larrikin, low-brow, low-lived, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, unformed, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unpolished, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild), ermo (bleak, cloistered, cloistral, desert, dreary, free-for-all, gaunt, lone, solitary, solitude, unfrequented, waste, wild), assolado (waste), árido (dry). (various references) | |
Russian | опустошенный (waste). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razoren (dilapidated), poražen (defeated), opustošen (infested). (various references) | |
Spanish | devastado, asolado. (various references) | |
Swedish | ödelagd. (various references) | |
Turkish | harap (creaky, desolate, dilapidated, ramshackle, ratty, ruined, ruinous, waste, wrack and ruin). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Devastated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: devaststaed, devestate, devestated, devistate, devistated, evastate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "devastated" (pronounced de"vustā'tud) |
| 6 | -s t ā' t u d | overstated, understated. |
| 5 | -t ā' t u d | agitated, amputated, debilitated, decapitated, dictated, irritated, levitated, facilitated, gravitated, hesitated, imitated, incapacitated, mutated, necessitated, orientated, precipitated, premeditated, rehabilitated, resuscitated, rotated. |
| 4 | -ā' t u d | abrogated, accelerated, accentuated, acclimated, accommodated, abbreviated, abdicated, accumulated, activated, adjudicated, adulterated, advocated, affiliated, aggravated, aggregated, alienated, alleviated, allocated, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, angulated, animated, annihilated, anticipated, antiquated, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assimilated, associated, attenuated, authenticated, automated, backdated, bifurcated, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, castigated, castrated, celebrated, chlorinated, circulated, collaborated, commemorated, communicated, compensated, complicated, concentrated, confiscated, congratulated, congregated, consecrated, consolidated, constipated, consummated, contaminated, contemplated, cooperated, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, deactivated, decaffeinated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, degenerated, delegated, deliberated, delineated, demonstrated, denigrated, denominated, depreciated, desegregated, designated, deteriorated, detonated, devaluated, deviated, differentiated, dilapidated, interpolated, interrogated, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, inundated, invalidated, investigated, invigorated, irradiated, irrigated, isolated, laminated, legislated, liberated, liquidated, litigated, located, lubricated, discriminated, disintegrated, disseminated, dissipated, domesticated, dominated, donated, duplicated, educated, elevated, eliminated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emulated, encapsulated, enumerated, enunciated, eradicated, escalated, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excavated, excommunicated, excoriated, exhilarated, exonerated, expropriated, exterminated, extrapolated, extricated, fabricated, fascinated, federated, fixated, flagellated, fluctuated, formulated, frustrated, generated, germinated, glaciated, graduated, gyrated, halogenated, humiliated, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, illuminated, illustrated, immigrated, impersonated, implicated, impregnated, inactivated, inaugurated, incarcerated, incinerated, incorporated, inculcated, indicated, indoctrinated, infatuated, infiltrated, infuriated, initiated, innovated, inoculated, instigated, insulated, integrated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, masturbated, mediated, medicated, migrated, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, mitigated, moderated, motivated, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, negotiated, nominated, nonregulated, obligated, obliterated, officiated, operated, opinionated, orchestrated, originated, outdated, overestimated, overregulated, oxygenated, participated, penetrated, perforated, permeated, perpetrated, perpetuated, pollinated, pontificated, populated, predicated, predominated, prefabricated, prognosticated, proliferated, promulgated, propagated, punctuated, radiated, reactivated, reallocated, rebated, recalculated, reciprocated, recreated, redecorated, reevaluated, reformulated, refrigerated, regenerated, regulated, reincarnated, reintegrated, reinvigorated, reiterated, rejuvenated, relegated, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, repatriated, replicated, repudiated, resonated, retaliated, reverberated, ruminated, salivated, saturated, segregated, separated, serrated, simulated, situated, sophisticated, speculated, stagnated, stalemated, stimulated, stipulated, subjugated, subordinated, substantiated, suffocated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, terminated, titillated, tolerated, truncated, unadulterated, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, underestimated, undifferentiated, uneducated, unincorporated, uninitiated, unmitigated, unregulated, unsaturated, unsophisticated, unsubstantiated, venerated, ventilated. |
| 3 | -t u d | abstracted, abutted, accented, accepted, abated, abducted, abetted, aborted, accosted, accounted, accredited, acquainted, acquitted, acted, adapted, addicted, adjusted, admitted, adopted, affected, afflicted, affronted, airlifted, alerted, allotted, amounted, annotated, anted, appointed, arrested, assaulted, asserted, assisted, assorted, attempted, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, averted, awaited, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, catapulted, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, circuited, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collected, comforted, commented, committed, commuted, compacted, competed, complemented, completed, complimented, computed, conceited, concerted, concocted, conducted, conflicted, confronted, congested, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consented, consisted, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, contacted, contented, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, corrupted, costed, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crested, crusted, darted, dated, daunted, debated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, dehydrated, dejected, deleted, delighted, delisted, demented, demoted, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, deregulated, desecrated, deserted, destructed, detected, detested, detracted, devoted, digested, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, interpreted, interrelated, interrupted, intersected, introverted, invented, inverted, invested, invited, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, lasted, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, listed, looted, lusted, discounted, discredited, disenchanted, disgusted, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, dissented, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, dusted, edited, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elicited, elongated, emitted, enacted, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, equated, erected, erupted, escorted, evicted, exacted, exalted, excepted, excerpted, excited, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhorted, existed, exited, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, extorted, extracted, extradited, extroverted, exulted, faceted, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, flabbergasted, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, gated, gifted, gloated, glutted, grafted, granted, grated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, halfhearted, hallucinated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, hunted, ignited, impacted, imparted, implanted, implemented, imported, imprinted, imputed, incited, indebted, indicted, indited, inducted, infected, infested, inflated, inflected, inflicted, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, injected, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instituted, instructed, insulted, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, manifested, marketed, masted, mated, melted, merited, meted, minted, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, modulated, molested, mounted, multifaceted, muted, nearsighted, negated, neglected, nested, netted, noted, objected, obstructed, omitted, opted, orbited, oriented, ornamented, ousted, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overrepresented, overweighted, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, perfected, permitted, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, polluted, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, predated, predicted, preempted, preexisted, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prohibited, projected, promoted, prompted, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, readjusted, readmitted, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebutted, recanted, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recruited, redacted, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, refitted, reflected, refuted, regimented, regretted, reignited, reinstated, reinstituted, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvited, rejected, related, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, rented, repainted, repeated, repented, replanted, reported, represented, reprinted, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotted, rusted, rutted, sainted, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, selected, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, sited, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sorted, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, started, stated, stilted, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, submitted, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, toasted, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unaffected, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompleted, unconnected, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, undetected, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmolested, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unstated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, vented, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-s-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: devastate. | |
-3 letters: deadest, estated, sedated, steaded. | |
-4 letters: deaved, deaves, detest, devest, estate, evaded, evades, savate, seated, sedate, stated, staved, tasted, teased, teated, testae, tested, vatted, vested, vetted. | |
-5 letters: aedes, avast, dadas, dated, dates, deads, deave, deeds, deets, devas, eased, eaved, eaves, evade, sated, saved, setae, stade, state, stave, stead, steed, taste, tates, tease, teats. | |
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