Definition & Meaning | English word DEVASTATES

Definitions of DEVASTATES

1. inflection of devastate

Examples of Using DEVASTATES in a Sentence

• Grimoald takes and devastates Friuli, tracks down Lupus's son Arnefrit (allied with the Slaves), and beats him and kills him in battle at the castle of Nimis.
• December 5 – A major earthquake in the Jordan Valley devastates multiple cities across the Palestine region, killing many people and triggering a tsunami.
• He devastates the land east of the Tisza River, deciding the war for the Byzantines and ending the Avar and Slavic incursions across the Danube.
• 842 BC—Shalmaneser III devastates the territory of Damascus; Israel and the Phoenician cities send tribute.
• In 1908 Shanghai, Chen Zhen returns to Jingwu School to marry his fiancée Yuan Li'er, but Chen learns that his master Huo Yuanjia has died, apparently from illness, which devastates Chen.
• All-American Boy (real name: Josh Walker) was deceived into an experiment using Kryptonite to bond cell scrapings taken from Doomsday to a human host, battles Superman, and devastates Smallville.
• 2–3 August – the "Muckle Spate", a great flood of the River Findhorn which devastates much of Strathspey, Scotland, washing away many bridges.
• This action devastates her and, regardless of his reasons (which Gameran was commanded to divulge), she considers him a betrayer and enemy.
• Yet the significant lack of accountability, the absence of transparency, and the widespread hypocrisy in the pink ribbon marketing culture exploits a disease that devastates communities, misrepresents who is affected by breast cancer, and excludes and marginalizes women's diverse lived experiences of the disease.
• In psychology, narcissistic injury, also known as narcissistic wound or wounded ego, is emotional trauma that overwhelms an individual's defense mechanisms and devastates their pride and self-worth.
• Overfishing has ‘knock-on’ effects that result in the increase of macroalgae that can outcompete and smother corals, and fishing using destructive methods physically devastates the reef.
• 14 July 1987: A brutal and unforeseeable flood of the Borne river, following a violent storm over the mountain, submerges the valley and devastates in particular the campsite of Le Grand-Bornand.
• May 13 – A tornado outbreak devastates the north and northeastern Missouri towns of Green City, Novinger, and Kirksville, killing three.
• Ahab ponders the heartless God who devastates so many lives and baptizes his new harpoon with Pip's blood.
• 2–3 August – the "Muckle Spate", a great flood of the River Findhorn which devastates much of Strathspey, washing away many bridges.
• With dissonant, downtuned bruisers like 'Stacking Bodies' to send mosh pits into full-swing contrasted by more emotionally riveting songs like 'Cold Room', telling the story of the death of a child and the struggle to feel complete as a parent thereafter, Deathgrip devastates with its heaviness, but also does a number on the listener's emotional sensibilities as well.
• She backstabbed him, which devastates Siva, and he moves to the city when his pickpocket buddy intrudes into the hotel to alter his state.

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