Usually means: Extreme destruction or damage caused.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. devastation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. devastation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devastation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. devastation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Devastation, devastation: Wordnik
  6. devastation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. devastation: Wiktionary
  8. devastation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. devastation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. devastation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Devastation, devastation: Dictionary.com
  12. devastation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Devastation (comics), Devastation (video game), Devastation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Devastation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. devastation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. devastation: Rhymezone
  17. Devastation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. devastation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. devastation: Free Dictionary
  20. devastation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. devastation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devastation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devastation: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devastation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
noun:  (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.

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