Synonyms of the word

devastate

• v. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a…
• v. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
• v. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless…

desolate

• adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• adj. Barren and lifeless.
• adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
• adj. Dismal or dreary.
• adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• v. To deprive of inhabitants.
• v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…}
• v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

overpower

• v. (transitive) To subdue someone by superior force.
• v. (transitive) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.

overtake

• v. To pass a more slowly moving object.
• v. (economics) To become greater than something else.
• v. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

overwhelm

• v. To engulf, surge over and submerge.
• v. To overpower, crush.
• v. To overpower emotionally.
• v. To cause to surround, to cover.
• n. The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

ravage

• v. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
• v. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
• v. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
• n. Grievous damage or havoc.
• n. Depredation or devastation.

ruin

• n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
• n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
• n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
• n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
• v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
• v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
• v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
• v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

scourge

• n. (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread…
• n. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
• n. A whip, often of leather.
• v. To strike with a scourge, to flog.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

whelm

• v. To cover; to submerge; to engulf; to bury.
• v. To overcome with emotion.
• v. (obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.