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单词 devastating
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devastating
(devəsteɪtɪŋ )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging. [emphasis]
The city took the full force of the devastating floods.
Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.
Synonyms: destructive, damaging, catastrophic, harmful  
2. adjective
You can use devastating to emphasize that something is very shocking, upsetting, or terrible. [emphasis]
The diagnosis was devastating. She had cancer.
Synonyms: traumatic, shocking, upsetting, disturbing  
3. adjective
You can use devastating to emphasize that something or someone is very impressive. [emphasis]
...a devastating display of galloping and jumping.
I was devastating, if I do say so myself.
devastatingly adverb [usually ADVERB adjective/-ed]
Its advertising is devastatingly successful.
She was charming and devastatingly beautiful too.
Collocations:
devastating damage
Your people think independently of your wishes, as do the various forces of nature that can reap devastating damage.
The Sun
Many clients are of the generation old enough to recall the devastating damage wrought by inflation in the 1970s.
Times,Sunday Times
The devices can send a projectile of hot metal through even the toughest armour, causing devastating damage, not dissimilar to an armour-piercing shell.
Times, Sunday Times
Their carrier group could cause devastating damage to any target.
The Sun
They can also summon fire or acid from the sky and cause devastating damage to their foes.
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devastating diagnosis
She had gone with a friend to an appointment at what they thought was a private clinic when she was given the devastating diagnosis.
The Sun
How one couple coped with their young son's devastating diagnosis.
Times, Sunday Times
It wasn't until she had a hysterectomy because she had fibroids (small growths in the womb) that she received the devastating diagnosis.
The Sun
Just after her second birthday in 2007, scans showed her spleen had enlarged to an enormous size and the doctors delivered the devastating diagnosis.
The Sun
Burrow's old pals have rallied round him since news of his devastating diagnosis and a fund-raising campaign quickly topped £200,000.
The Sun
devastating disease
She lost both hands and her toes to the devastating disease, but after ten blood transfusions she pulled through and battled back to full health.
The Sun
In addition to providing in-patient care, this program sends staff and volunteers into homes in order to monitor the antiretroviral medicines and help families cope with the devastating disease.
Christianity Today
But there are ways to reduce your chances of getting the devastating disease.
The Sun
After 1849, the silk farms were almost all abandoned because of this devastating disease.
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However, it was doomed by poor planning, short provisions, weak leadership, lack of demand for trade goods, and devastating disease.
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devastating drought
But if this winter's rains are poor and the soils are not soaked, we should begin to worry about having a devastating drought next year.
Times, Sunday Times
More pressingly, how will the family eat during a devastating drought?
The Sun
More than 800,000 people ravaged by a devastating drought have left their homes in search of food.
The Sun
He was able to comfort the people despite a devastating drought at the time.
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Despite the devastating drought in 1863-4, the cattle industry grew until it dominated the region in the 1880s.
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devastating earthquake
Five years on from the devastating earthquake, there's a lot of work still to be done.
Times, Sunday Times
After a devastating earthquake in 1755, its new grid-patterned streets were designed specifically to funnel sea breezes into town.
Times, Sunday Times
This was the only successful evacuation before a devastating earthquake in history.
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Repairs to the walls have been carried out since the devastating earthquake of 1273.
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In terms of property loss it was the most devastating earthquake in the town's history.
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devastating effect
There are fears that the credit crunch will have a devastating effect on some families which are already deep in debt.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a potent exploration of the devastating effect of war on normal life.
Times, Sunday Times
But hydropower’s most devastating effect might be that, contrary to popular belief, it’s not actually emission-free.
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It had a devastating effect (see extract on page 15).
Times,Sunday Times
This has had a devastating effect on 300,000 bedouins, who rely on foreign travellers for their livelihood.
Times, Sunday Times
devastating explosion
There are strong indications that the investigators will pinpoint a serious fuel leak as the cause of the devastating explosion.
Times, Sunday Times
A second tank operator said that he had not heard of such a devastating explosion inside a tank during his career of more than two decades.
Times, Sunday Times
Years later in 1980 the town would face the difficulty of another devastating explosion.
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The loading docks were the site of a devastating explosion in 1944.
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But truth also causes dreadful collateral damage to people who find themselves within range of truth's devastating explosions.
Times, Sunday Times
devastating famine
A devastating famine, which by common consent cost the lives of between 30 and 40 million people, ravaged the countryside between 1959 and 1962.
The Times Literary Supplement
The flowering before that, in 1911, triggered another devastating famine, and the blossom of 1862 had similarly dire consequences.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1746, the monsoon failed, resulting in a devastating famine.
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In the first half of the 19th century, the area was ravaged several times by devastating famine and epidemics.
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During the devastating famine and drought, the family must flee to a large city in the south to find work.
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devastating fire
However, a devastating fire in 1694 destroyed much of the town and many buildings were rebuilt in the late-17th century and 18th-century style.
Times, Sunday Times
The mummified bee nests were trapped in the altarpiece during restoration work conducted in 1875, five years after a devastating fire damaged parts of the cathedral.
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Over the long term, it would inevitably lead to soaring costs and, even more critically, increase the risk of a devastating fire or flood destroying the building and endangering lives.
Times,Sunday Times
More than 20 million has been spent on rooms for survivors and local residents since the devastating fire last summer.
Times, Sunday Times
Here are a few immediate measures that can reduce the risk of a devastating fire in your home.
Times, Sunday Times
devastating flood
Immediately following a devastating flood, a family may be in need of food, clothing and shelter, regardless of their financial resources.
Christianity Today
On this day 70 years ago a cloudburst unleashed a devastating flood - although there was hardly news of the disaster at the time.
Times, Sunday Times
The bridge stood until a devastating flood washed out the supports in 1998, carrying away the bridge.
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In the devastating flood of 1893 the river was said to be ten miles wide.
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The arboretum's beginnings can be traced to a devastating flood in 1940, with a variety of trees planted in the 1960s during restoration work.
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devastating hurricane
The 1935 hurricane seemed to blow up out of nowhere, developing from a tropical storm with 70mph winds to a devastating hurricane in only two days.
Times, Sunday Times
The first was the devastating hurricane of 1780, which destroyed most of the buildings, crops and roads.
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Three years later, much objection from citizens of the colony and a devastating hurricane, this project was abandoned.
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Experts say a devastating hurricane would down thousands of trees yet, would increase the woodrat population.
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In 1900 a devastating hurricane hit the shoreline seriously damaging the community's attractions.
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devastating impact
The resulting 'before and after' pictures illustrate the devastating impact of pollution, global warming and ocean acidification.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet research showing the devastating impact of family fragmentation has been ignored for decades.
Times,Sunday Times
Gang culture has a devastating impact on neighbourhoods and should be given zero tolerance.
The Sun
Closure would have a devastating impact on the local economy.
Times, Sunday Times
There would, he argues, have been a devastating impact on businesses in many countries in any case.
Times,Sunday Times
devastating injury
But the burly dad of two landed a stomach punch so hard it caused the devastating injury.
The Sun
They had stood by him through a devastating injury; he had stood by them through a succession of relegation battles.
Times, Sunday Times
Experts believe this devastating injury could force him out for six months, writing off the 2010-11 campaign.
The Sun
And that's not semantics, he says; it goes to the core of coping with our devastating injury - to change from tears of despair to tears of frustration.
Times, Sunday Times
Doctors were doubtful he would come back to full strength after this devastating injury.
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devastating results
If top ('apex') predators are missing, then middleranking ('meso') predators thrive with devastating results for species on which they prey.
Times, Sunday Times
Ambition gets the better of her, with devastating results.
Times, Sunday Times
Lack of communication for myriad reasons appears almost inherent to terminal illness, with devastating results.
Times, Sunday Times
Huge sums, huge rewards - and all for presiding over a bubble that has now burst with devastating results.
Times, Sunday Times
It was six months before we got the devastating results.
The Sun
devastating storm
He's enterprising enough to patch up the hole, but water damage to his navigational equipment means that he finds himself in the path of a devastating storm.
Times, Sunday Times
These were the ideal conditions for a devastating storm surge.
Times, Sunday Times
Plans were drawn up for a new town on a nearby hill, but before the work could be completed another devastating storm struck in 1287.
Times, Sunday Times
It sank completely during devastating storm tides in 1717 and 1718.
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The storm has been described as one of the most devastating storm events during the 20th century.
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devastating toll
She said losing her job had taken a devastating toll on her life.
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The former middleweight, 53, revealed the devastating toll taken on him as the thugs behind the attack were jailed.
The Sun
Tropical diseases in generaland malaria in particulartook a devastating toll in this campaign, outnumbering combat casualties by ten to one.
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devastating tornado
A devastating tornado hit the town in 1852.
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The devastating tornado ripped through the town, destroying 2 homes and many more were heavily damaged.
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Following two particularly devastating tornadoes in 1997 and 1999, engineers questioned the reliability of the scale.
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devastating tragedy
It was a devastating tragedy.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead of textbook advice, we have decided to follow a pastor and his wife through a devastating tragedy that happened to one of the families in their church.
Christianity Today
It's a powerful piece of drama, a quietly devastating tragedy.
Times, Sunday Times
devastating tsunami
Researchers tracked the tectonic movements caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which caused a devastating tsunami.
Times, Sunday Times
The community had to rebuild after a devastating tsunami in 1963.
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It caused a devastating tsunami which led to several thousand fatalities.
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Historically, great or giant megathrust earthquakes have been recorded in 1797, 1833, 1861, 2004, 2005 and 2007, most of them being associated with devastating tsunamis.
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It has been the location for many large and damaging earthquakes since historical records began, most of which triggered devastating tsunamis.
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devastating war
Besides, in 1940 the older generation had lived through a recent, devastating war.
Times,Sunday Times
We brought a quick end to a devastating war and maintained the peace, and eventually saw democracy prevail.
Times, Sunday Times
If we are ever to make a successful end of this devastating war, we certainly cannot afford to relax our hold at such a moment on the legislative machinery.
Times, Sunday Times
This new music from the new world fitted the zeitgeist perfectly as, subconsciously or consciously, people repressed their memories of the old, and the devastating war it had concocted.
Times, Sunday Times
Unlike many other settlements in the region, it was not razed, but after ten years of devastating war, only 150 houses were still standing.
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economically devastating
For the longer term it remains the case that loss of full access to the single market would be economically devastating.
Times, Sunday Times
The fallout from such a standoff would be economically devastating.
Times, Sunday Times
The strains are not harmful to humans, but are economically devastating for shrimp farmers.
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emotionally devastating
Coming to terms with it was an emotionally devastating experience.
Times, Sunday Times
Preaching hurt physically, but worse than the physical pain, it was emotionally devastating.
Christianity Today
And yet we tried to meet up for occasional dinners and coffees, which ranged from emotionally devastating to slightly awkward.
The Sun
Father and son playing together give this riveting production a frisson, yes, but these are technically masterful and emotionally devastating performances; theatre at its powerful best.
Times, Sunday Times
This means that, though fewer service members die, more return from war with injuries more serious, and in turn more emotionally devastating, than ever before.
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financially devastating
I didn't appreciate that for many families, the crash was financially devastating.
Times,Sunday Times
Seasickness has blighted many a holidaymaker's dream cruise, but a report warns that falling ill on board a luxury liner could be financially devastating.
Times, Sunday Times
If the new tax proves to be as financially devastating as some industry observers fear, it could severely weaken or even wipe out some of the smaller operators.
Times, Sunday Times
It seems more likely that the tax will strike slightly wealthier families - politically damaging, yes, but not financially devastating.
Times, Sunday Times
potentially devastating
Will it go below zero and, in a recessionary environment, usher in a long and potentially devastating period of deflation - a falling price level?
Times, Sunday Times
But it can also be used to blow economically useless, and potentially devastating, bubbles.
Times, Sunday Times
It ended by admonishing the government for its 'terrifying' silence on its potentially devastating consequences.
Times, Sunday Times
Wasps may well benefit today from their part in teasing from the dull communal such a potentially devastating individual.
Times, Sunday Times
And yet their paths have converged to the point where one could deal a potentially devastating blow to the other.
Times, Sunday Times
truly devastating
These depredations had truly devastating consequences for the economy and for society more generally.
The Times Literary Supplement
Still playing into the wind, they combined the two skillsets with truly devastating effect to claim the lead for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
I've never talked about this before, but it was truly devastating.
Times, Sunday Times
What a truly devastating story.
The Sun
The results can be truly devastating.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 毁灭性的
Japanese: さんざんな
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