Devastation

(noun.) an event that results in total destruction.

(noun.) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; 'her departure left him in utter devastation'.

(noun.) the state of being decayed or destroyed.

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• We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They had evidently been led to believe that the National troops carried death and devastation with them wherever they went. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Again, as to the devastation of Hellenic territory or the burning of houses, what is to be the practice? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years War. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Darwin had many other instances of nature's devastations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Central Europe did not fully recover from these robberies and devastations for a century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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