What it means
- (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.
- (verb) To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- (verb) 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.
Letter analysis
- Devastate contains 9 letters: 4 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
- It uses 6 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 3.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 13.
Related words
Other 9-letter words
- aardvarks
- abandoned
- abasement
- abatement
- abattoirs
- abdicated
- abdicates
- abdominal
- abductees
- abducting
- abduction
- abductors
- abhorrent
- abhorring
- abilities
- ablatives
- ablutions
- abnegated
Words starting with DEV
- devaluation
- devaluations
- devalue
- devalued
- devalues
- devaluing
- devastated
- devastates
- devastating
- devastation
- develop
- developed
- developer
- developers
- developing
- development
- developmental
- developments
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Words ending with ATE
Sub-words
- deaves
- detest
- estate
- evades
- seated
- sedate
- stated
- staved
- tasted
- teased
- tested
- vatted
- vested
- vetted
- avast
- dates
- eased
- eaves
- evade
- sated
- saved
- state
- stave
- stead
- steed
- taste
- tease
- teats
- advt
- data
- date
- ease
- east
- eats
- eave
- eves
- sate
- save
- seat
- seed
- stat
- tads
- tats
- teas
- teat
- teed
- tees
- test
- vase
- vast
- vats
- vest
- vets
- ads
- adv
- ate
- eat
- eds
- est
Common questions
What does Devastate mean?
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.
How many letters are in Devastate?
Devastate has 9 letters.
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