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(v)
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.
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(n)
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.
(adj)
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
devastate or ravage
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
(transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
Violent uncontrolled anger.
(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
(US, television) The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.
(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
(figurative) Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
(military, slang, dated) Acronym of herrings in tomato sauce.
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
(obsolete) To devastate.
(transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
(transitive) To destroy by ripping.
To cause damage, disruption, or destruction.
(transitive) To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.
(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
(Scotland) Noisy riotous conduct.
(transitive) To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
(transitive) To rend or tear severely; tear badly; rip all over.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
(ambitransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
(transitive) To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
(transitive) To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
(transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
(figuratively) A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
The remains of something; a wreck.
(transitive, dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
(transitive) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
(figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
(obsolete, transitive) To rip open; to disembowel.
(archaic) To gobble ravenously, devour voraciously
(intransitive) To self-destruct.
An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(idiomatic, transitive) To completely demolish, to raze.
(transitive, obsolete) To tear apart, rend to pieces; tear up.
A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
(horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
(transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
(transitive) To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
(transitive, obsolete) To rive in pieces; rend.
(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.
(obsolete) To tear apart; tear to pieces or shreds; rend.
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
(transitive) To open by ripping or tearing.
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
(transitive) To eat.
(transitive) To decimate again.
To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism.
(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
To perplex or puzzle.
An instance of plundering.
(intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
(obsolete, transitive) To ruin completely; destroy.
(transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
(poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
(archaic except Northern England, Scotland) Synonym of ransack.
(obsolete or poetic) To rip up; to tear apart.
(transitive) To inflict brutal violence on.
(uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
(transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
(transitive, obsolete) To take away or remove completely.
(UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
Misspelling of destroy. [(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.]
Obsolete spelling of villainize. [(transitive) To represent as a villain.]
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
(intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
(intransitive) To start shedding tears.
(transitive, obsolete) To tear apart, rend to pieces, rip up.
To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
(transitive, obsolete) To take away; rob; deprive; ravish
(transitive, archaic) To ravish; to debauch.
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
(transitive) To destroy again.