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Noun
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Great destruction or damage
destruction
ruin
ruination
demolition
annihilation
obliteration
desolation
extermination
decimation
demolishment
wreckage
extinction
wastage
havoc
loss
mincemeat
damage
waste
ravages
ruins
violation
elimination
wrecking
extirpation
crushing
wreck
eradication
shattering
end
liquidation
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“The ashes and the smoke from the devastation drifted through the air throughout the city for days after the tragic event.”
Noun
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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated
destruction
ruination
demolition
wrecking
levelingUS
levellingUK
razing
annihilation
ravaging
flattening
despoliation
ransacking
rape
laying waste
plundering
depredation
sacking
pillage
plunder
raiding
robbery
looting
sack
pillaging
marauding
robbing
spoliation
rapine
despoiling
reaving
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“Air bombardment of military factories led to the devastation of the landscape.”
Noun
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Mental or emotional distress or trauma
shock
trauma
suffering
distress
misery
pain
stress
upheaval
upset
anguish
torture
agony
heartache
heartbreak
sorrow
strain
grief
traumatization
woe
torment
sadness
unhappiness
affliction
despair
desolation
wretchedness
despondency
dejection
angst
dolor
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“There are no words to describe the sense of devastation felt by both families.”
Noun
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A great and sudden disaster or misfortune
catastrophe
disaster
calamity
misfortune
tragedy
trouble
adversity
mishap
blow
tribulation
affliction
misadventure
trial
accident
hardship
cataclysm
reverse
debacle
mischance
crisis
misery
woe
ruin
shock
contretemps
ruination
apocalypse
fiasco
grief
upheaval
blight
scourge
havoc
ill
whammy
holocaust
crash
meltdown
desolation
wreck
bale
mishanter
waterloo
abyss
infliction
curtains
bad luck
car crash
bad news
the worst
bad thing
bad day
tragic state of affairs
more ❯
Noun
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A sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience
shock
blow
distress
disturbance
surprise
trauma
bombshell
upset
disbelief
revelation
whammy
amazement
astonishment
confusion
consternation
hysteria
startlement
stupefaction
numbness
awe
earthquake
encounter
excitement
injury
thunderbolt
eye-opener
rude awakening
state of agitation
state of perturbation
source of amazement
source of consternation
source of distress
state of shock
double whammy
kick in the teeth
a bolt from the blue
a bolt out of the blue
bolt from the blue
more ❯
Noun
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Great unhappiness or loneliness
desolation
sadness
despondency
depression
unhappiness
melancholy
dejection
misery
dolefulness
dispiritedness
gloom
despair
disconsolateness
despondence
sorrowfulness
glumness
downheartedness
sorrow
gloominess
joylessness
mournfulness
distress
miserableness
forlornness
dreariness
heartsickness
grief
doldrums
anguish
woe
blues
wretchedness
oppression
despond
dumps
mopes
discouragement
mourning
dismalness
grimness
low spirits
heavy-heartedness
blue devils
broken-heartedness
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Noun
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A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group
pogrom
extermination
massacre
slaughter
butchery
annihilation
holocaust
bloodbath
murder
slaying
genocide
decimation
carnage
bloodletting
Shoah
bloodshed
destruction
assassination
internecion
mass murder
ethnic cleansing
mass homicide
mass execution
mass slaughter
wholesale slaughter
mass killing
night of the long knives
liquidation
killing
death
more ❯
Noun
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The collapse or bankruptcy of a business
failure
bankruptcy
collapse
crash
closure
insolvency
liquidation
folding
ruin
decline
downfall
ruination
termination
closing
sinking
checkmate
overthrow
close-down
going under
shutting down
winding up
receivership
penury
beggary
destitution
administration
pauperdom
indebtedness
financial ruin
Chapter 11
more ❯
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