Détruire complètement un lieu.
To destroy a place completely.
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L'inondation a dévasté les villes côtières. — The flood devastated the coastal towns.
La nouvelle a anéanti ses parents. — The news devastated his parents.
Un seul incendie peut dévaster tout un quartier. — A single fire can devastate a whole neighborhood.
Un tel message l'anéantirait. — Such a message would devastate her.
Les tempêtes dévastent ces îles presque chaque année. — Storms devastate these islands almost every year.
Ne lui dis pas encore, cela va l'anéantir. — Don't tell him yet, it will devastate him.
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Download the app for free French vocabulary testDévaster and devastate are the same word and not the same range. For a place they agree: une inondation a dévasté la région. For a person French refuses — one is not dévasté by a piece of news, one is anéanti or effondré.
Since the person sense is the commoner one in English, almost always in the passive, this is the half that trips people up. Dévaster is also literary in French; the everyday verb for the same picture is ravager.
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