devastating en · ADJ
Meanings
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Causing devastation.
“The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make no mistake: conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating.”
2023 June 3, Haley Britzky, Brad Lendon, quoting Lloyd Austin, “Taiwan war would be ‘devastating,’ warns US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he criticizes China at Shangri-La security summit”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more devastating | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most devastating | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (12)
es devastador (causing devastation) · el συντριπτικός (causing devastation) · de verheerend (causing devastation) · fi tuhoava (causing devastation) · fr dévastateur (causing devastation) · la vastificus (causing devastation) · pt devastador (causing devastation) · mk разорувачки (causing devastation) · ga sladach (causing devastation) · ca devastador (causing devastation) · bg опустошителен (causing devastation) · sv förödande (causing devastation)