devastating

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adj causing devastation

adjective. disastrous; tragic

adjective. destructive

adjective. destructive

adjective. deadly

adjective. effective, significant

adjective. effective, significant

1630s, present participle adjective from devastate. Trivial use by 1889.

If people seldom cry it has a devastating effect on their appearance when they do.

Israel was the evil one for whose sin they suffered this devastating plague.

Remote as many of these jungles are, the plumage hunter is devastating them already.

Sometimes it was intermittent, and came down in devastating floods.

The plague was not in Bombay then, but it is devastating the city now.

That is a sample of the character of that devastating march.

No one who had not seen it could imagine the devastating fury of that storm.

The march inland of the rabbit was like that of a devastating army.

For them it is entertainment, and as such it is devastating.

At the worst, if they do lose me, its not a devastating loss.