Dictionary definition · devastation
noun
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed"her departure left him in utter devastation"
- an event that results in total destruction
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).