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devastation
noun
1. the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
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her departure left him in utter devastation

Derivationally related forms: ↑devastate
Hypernyms: ↑feeling
2. plundering with excessive damage and destruction
Syn: ↑ravaging
Derivationally related forms: ↑devastate, ↑ravage (for: ↑ravaging)
Hypernyms: ↑plundering, ↑pillage, ↑pillaging
3. the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
Syn: ↑destruction
Derivationally related forms: ↑devastate, ↑destroy (for: ↑destruction)
Hypernyms: ↑termination, ↑ending, ↑conclusion
Hyponyms:
disaster, ↑kill, ↑laying waste, ↑ruin, ↑ruining, ↑ruination, ↑wrecking, ↑razing, ↑leveling, ↑tearing down, ↑demolishing, ↑annihilation, ↑obliteration, ↑decimation, ↑self-destruction, ↑neutralization, ↑neutralisation, ↑sabotage, ↑extermination, ↑liquidation, ↑holocaust, ↑demolition, ↑spoliation, ↑vandalism, ↑hooliganism, ↑malicious mischief
4. an event that results in total destruction
Syn: ↑desolation
Derivationally related forms: ↑desolate (for: ↑desolation), ↑devastate
Hypernyms: ↑ruin, ↑ruination
5. the state of being decayed or destroyed
Syn: ↑desolation
Derivationally related forms: ↑desolate (for: ↑desolation), ↑devastate
Hypernyms: ↑deterioration, ↑impairment
Hyponyms: ↑ruin, ↑ruination, ↑blight

Useful english dictionary. 2012.