Picture a stretch of land after a flood or a fire: not damaged here and there, but , with nothing left standing across the whole area. Point that same picture at a person and you get the other use — news that leaves someone with nothing standing inside.
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
devastateverb/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/
- 1
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- Halifax in Canada was devastated by a ship exploding in 1917. SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.
- 2
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- 3
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
- 4
To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。