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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of devast.

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Examples

  • To allow discoveries to be made which could have great applications in devasted landscapes?

    Treating Cancer with Landscape Architecture 2008

  • Nikki, Sage and I are leaving for the US next month, to spend some time in devasted Florida with a possible side trip to New York (to meet a client, visit my sister, and see a play).

    Archive 2004-09-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Nikki, Sage and I are leaving for the US next month, to spend some time in devasted Florida with a possible side trip to New York (to meet a client, visit my sister, and see a play).

    visa denied & seven bad words Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Looks like she's been devasted by 6 fathers and will go on being 'devasted' til she gets a sprog she can keep.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Similary, Telecoinabox founder Damian Kay said he was "devasted" yesterday.

    CRN Australia - News - 2010

  • Some business owners have told CRN that they were "devasted" with the Opposition's broadband plan, while others said the Coalition's $6 billion price tag was more fathomable than Labor's $43 billion scheme.

    CRN Australia - News - 2010

  • MTV, Dawn talked about how she feels about the group's break-up and even mentioned that Diddy is "devasted" about the whole situation.

    GOSSIPONTHIS.COM 2009

  • MTV, Dawn talked about how she feels about the group's break-up and even mentioned that Diddy is "devasted" about the whole situation.

    GOSSIPONTHIS.COM 2009

  • These include not only the tax breaks that favour the large corporates (which are significant), but the other forms of corporate welfare that have devasted their society and natural environment: 'protection' for agriculture that raises food prices; subsidies for energy extraction and consumption, for transport etc.

    I Heart Steven Pinker, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Another thing is the flooding caused by Hurrican Katrina, the devasted that was brought to America posed questions on how we really care about are fellow Americas, and brought more frustration, to a country that has been somewhat divided.

    State of Fear, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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