क्षय या नष्ट होने की अवस्था

Noun:

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

devastations's Usage Examples:

Mahratta invasions from central India, piratical devastations on the sea-board, banditti who marched about the interior in bodies of 50,000 men, floods which drowned the harvests of whole districts, and droughts in which a third of the population starved to death, kept alive a sense of human powerlessness in the presence of an omnipotent fate.

The condition of Piedmont at that time was deplorable; for wars, the exactions and devastations of the foreign soldiery, and religious antagonism between Catholics and Protestants had wrought terrible havoc. "Uncultivated," wrote the Venetian ambassador, quoted by E.

The death-blow to the country's prosperity was given by the devastations during the first Mithradatic War.

1920 and vented their disappointment at the non-fulfilment of the promises made them by devastations.

Mounds of bones marked his road, witnesses of devastations which other historians record in detail; Christian prisoners, from Germany, he found in the heart of "Tartary" (at Talas); the ceremony of passing between two fires he was compelled to observe, as a bringer of gifts to a dead khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

After the fall of Rome it suffered attacks and devastations from the successive masters of Italy, until it was finally taken by the Neapolitans in 1299.

This fruitful region, however, was covered with villages till the frightful devastations of the 18th century; and even now it is, comparatively speaking, well cultivated.

Saxony had now to suffer from the Swedes a repetition of the devastations of Wallenstein.

are still remembered in the Rhine district, where the devastations of his generals were of the most appalling description; and scarcely a village or town but has a tale to tell of the murder and rapine of this period.

Its devastations rapidly assumed gigantic proportions.

devastations's Meaning':

the state of being decayed or destroyed

Synonyms:

ravaging, pillaging, plundering, pillage,

Antonyms:

victory, defeat, middle, birth, be born,