Noun:

उज़ाड़ना, सर्व-नाशक, सर्व-नाश, प्रलय, नाश, बरबादी, विनाश, तबाही,

devastation's Usage Examples:

He was ejected for Nonconformity in 1662, and was so affected by the sight of the devastation caused by the great fire of London that he died shortly afterwards, on the 29th of October 1666.

The islands on the sea-front are exposed to devastation by cyclonic storm-waves.

In 1170 a great flood caused immense devastation in the north and helped to form the Zuider Zee.

In 1821 and 1883 great devastation was caused here by floods.

His one act of wanton devastation, the clearing of the New Forest, has been grossly exaggerated.

Some of the plays seem to have bordered on the political, as The Plunderings, describing the devastation of Sicily in the time of the poet.

Delavigne, inspired by the catastrophe of 1815, wrote two impassioned poems, the first entitled Waterloo, the second, Devastation du musee, both written in the heat of patriotic enthusiasm, and teeming with popular political allusions.

Finally, after months of inaction, Ibrahim began once more his systematic devastation of the country.

They flew over the Peak, and she straightened to see the devastation in the moonlight.

But on the whole there was no ruinous devastation of the land.

Synonyms:

pillage, plundering, pillaging, ravaging,

Antonyms:

be born, birth, middle, defeat, victory,