Synonyms for devastation
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Noun
1. Destruction
destruction, desolation, havoc, ravage, pillage, ruin, ravaging, wreck, spoliation, rapine, despoliation, depredation, waste rare
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Definitions
- n. 1
The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
Forms
- Plural
- devastations → destructions, desolations, havocs, ravages…
Example sentences
- destruction They found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
- havoc The drunken sailors wrecked havoc inside the bar.
- desolation The desolation left in his wake is staggering.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| devastation | rising | |
| destruction | steady | |
| havoc | rising | |
| desolation | rising | |
| ravage | rising | |
| devastavit | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- ruin2
- 5 letters
- waste1, wreck1, havoc2
- 6 letters
- ravage2, rapine
- 7 letters
- pillage2
- 8 letters
- ravaging3
- 10 letters
- desolation4, spoliation, devastavit
- 11 letters
- destruction3, depredation4
- 12 letters
- despoliation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ruin2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- dévastation
- Español
- devastación