What is "devastates"

Usage examples of "devastates".

To say that in the modern world slavery disrupts brain chemistry, devastates self-esteem, embodies sick cultural meanings, and is a dehumanizing institutionis to say the same thing.

Suppose it goes off early, devastates our economy, kills a million folks in North Carolina, not to mention your people, when we could have had it go off safely over the Atlantic?

He's not overly imaginative, but the memory-picture of a brown-haired girl putting a bunch of bright yellow flowers on their breakfast table suddenly devastates him.

And the potency of the runes is that for whoever knows the proper incantation the blade breaks into flame which devastates whatsoever it touches.

This flood is represented as the last cataclysm that devastates the earth.