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devastate verb demolish, depopulate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, gut, lever, overwhelm, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, raze, ruin, sack, wreck See also: damage, despoil, destroy, efface, extinguish, extirpate, harm, injure, obliterate, pillage, prejudice, subvert How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The commitment to reconciliation was tested much later following the devastatingly brutal war between the states. Spike Lee's ``When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts'' may be portentously overtitled, but it burns with a devastatingly muted fury. In an ideal world, there would be no under-duress adoptions; but also in an ideal world, according to the author, race would cease to exist as a devastatingly meaningful social category. |
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