"devastation" | Definition and Related Words

devastation

Noun

is a type of: deterioration, impairment - a symptom of reduced quality or strength
subtypes:
- ruin, ruination - an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- blight - a state or condition being blighted
same as: desolation
is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
is a type of: ruin, ruination - an event that results in destruction

same as: desolation
is a type of: pillage, pillaging, plundering - the act of stealing valuable things from a place

same as: ravaging
is a type of: conclusion, ending, termination - the act of ending something
subtypes:
- disaster - an act that has disastrous consequences
- kill - the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining, wrecking - destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- demolishing, leveling, razing, tearing down - complete destruction of a building
- annihilation, obliteration - destruction by annihilating something
- decimation - destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
- self-destruction - the act of destroying yourself
- neutralisation, neutralization - (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)
- sabotage - a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged
- extermination, liquidation - the act of exterminating
- holocaust - an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
- demolition - the act of demolishing
- spoliation - (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
- hooliganism, malicious mischief, vandalism - willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
same as: destruction

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