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devastated
adjective as in destroyed
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abolished, annihilated, blasted, blighted, consumed, devoured, disintegrated, eradicated, felled, incinerated, killed, obliterated, overwhelmed, razed, sacked, totaled, wasted
adjective as in finished
adjective as in grief-stricken
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cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, down, heartsick, heavy-hearted, hurting, inconsolable, melancholy, miserable, morose, overcome, troubled, unhappy, woebegone
adjective as in lost
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abolished, annihilated, bygone, consumed, demolished, dissipated, eradicated, exterminated, forgotten, frittered, gone, lapsed, misspent, misused, obliterated, past, perished, ruined, squandered, wrecked
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adjective as in overwhelmed
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Example Sentences
Mrs Senior added: "As Leah’s parents, we are so shocked. We never saw this coming and we are devastated."
The infusion of new talent and ideas is a significant change from when Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island disaster in 1979 and the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986 devastated the industry.
The charity single was conceived as a way to tackle the famine that devastated Ethiopia in 1984.
“People are devastated and terrified about what this might mean for their access to medications,” McClain told Salon in a phone interview.
I am feeling sad and shocked, ultimately devastated by this defeat.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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