devastation
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(noun) an event that results in total destruction |
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Synonyms: desolation |
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Related Words: ruin, ruination |
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(noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed |
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Synonyms: desolation, ruin |
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Related Words: blight, deterioration, impairment |
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(noun) termination by an act of destruction |
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Synonyms: destruction |
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Related Words: annihilation, conclusion, decimation, demolishing, demolition, disaster, ending, extermination, holocaust, hooliganism, kill, laying waste, leveling, liquidation, malicious mischief, obliteration, razing, ruin, ruination, ruining, sabotage, tearing down, termination, vandalism, wrecking |
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(noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction |
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Synonyms: ravaging |
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Related Words: pillage, pillaging, plundering |
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