devastate

Other forms of devastate

past tense

devastated·

present participle

devastating·

third person

devastates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about devastate

What does devastate mean?

devastate means "cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devastate?

devastate has 3 syllables: dev-a-state. The stress falls on "dev". In IPA it is /ˈdɛvəˌsteɪt/.

What is another word for devastate?

Close synonyms include lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devastate a common word?

devastate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with devastate?

13 words rhyme with devastate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.