Devastar in english
Devastate
pronunciation: devəsteɪt part of speech: verb
pronunciation: devəsteɪt part of speech: verb
In gestures
devastar = devastate ; wreak + devastation ; rack [wrack] ; wreak + destruction ; lay + waste to ; shatter ; desolate.
Example: The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.Example: This article describes the experiences of a fledgling information system in dealing with a hurricane which wreaked devastation on some of the most remote areas of Hawaii = This article describes the experiences of a fledgling information system in dealing with a hurricane which wreaked devastation on some of the most remote areas of Hawaii.Example: Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.Example: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.Example: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.Example: Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.Example: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.