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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
devastated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The whole town was devastated by the tragedy, in which fourteen schoolchildren died.
▪ When we got back, we were devastated to find that the house had been burgled, and everything of value taken.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clare was devastated and swore that she would never go back to school again.
▪ He says that he believes the police action contributed to his gran's death: the whole family are devastated.
▪ His family and friends are devastated.
▪ She says I spoke to people last night, everyone is devastated.
▪ The move comes after bandits stole half of the food aid sent to save starving millions in the devastated country.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
devastated

devastated \devastated\ adj. same as desolated.

Syn: blasted, desolate, desolated, ravaged, ruined, wasted.

Wiktionary
devastated
  1. 1 Ruined, ravaged 2 Extremely upset and shocked. v

  2. (en-past of: devastate)

WordNet
devastated

adj. made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: blasted, desolate, desolated, ravaged, ruined, wasted]

Wikipedia
Devastated

"Devastated" is the third single from Australian singer Sam Clark's debut studio album, Take Me Home. The single is also Clark's debut single in the UK. It was released physically in Australia on 30 July 2010 and digitally on 1 August.

Usage examples of "devastated".

As he moved slowly across the devastated plain, the vampire paused now and then to look up at the sky.

And of course he would have been grief-stricken, devastated, all the human things Karl can be—but it would not have been my secret any more.

Harry persisted in the common room that evening, but his assertion that the whole team would be devastated if Ron left was somewhat undermined by the fact that the rest of the team was sitting in a huddle in a distant corner, clearly muttering about Ron and casting him nasty looks.

In a horrible screeching sound, the devastated wing jackknifed around the front end of the Snow Cruiser tire and hung there.

But when we heard about the accident, we were devastated that she had left with the wrong impression.

It had to be, to have survived so long on a planet not suitable for human beings, and further devastated by so many centuries of reckless development and continual war with every nuclear, chemical and biological weapon ingenuity could produce.

Most 'Dinis would have preferred to see the planet devastated in retribution for those innocent worlds which had been fumigated by Hivers.

The com screen was scanning the devastated Main Continent on Xh-33, showing the carnage but also a bottom line that gave feeble blips, identifying survivors.

She remembered how devastated, how lost she had been when he'd been falsely disciplined for the Optherian affair .

She had completed her training just as the war ended and then used her skills to map devastated areas on one planet and two moons.

Robinton was especially devastated, as he was one of the few people in High Reaches Hold who had known both Weyrwoman and dragon in the prime of life.

Eastern Weyr got lashing rain and high winds but not the punishing blow that had devastated the coastline.

A chorus assured her with such conviction that the devastated Tai collapsed, wondering and grieving at that response, crawling toward F'lessan before she lost consciousness.

She hadn't been devastated by their divorce, five years earlier, because their love had never grown, never gone any deeper.

The entire Teele family was devastated, according to the whispers Mary heard as she gathered her groceries.