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How to pronounce “devastate”
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Pronunciation guide for devastate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of devastate with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Disaster by Choice
are devastated because they spend their lifetime trying
- Definition summary
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce devastate
Disaster by Choice
are devastated because they spend their lifetime trying
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “devastate”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
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