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111devastate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. [lay] waste, ravage, desolate, pillage; ruin, raze, destroy, demolish; informal, disappoint, crush. See destruction, disappointment. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To lay waste] Syn. ravage, desolate,… …
112Destruction — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Nonproduction. < N PARAG:Destruction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{ant,161,} destruction Sgm: N 1 waste waste dissolution breaking up Sgm: N 1 diruption diruption disruption Sgm: N 1 consumption …
113attack — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, MO, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abuse, accept, access, acquired epilepsy, action, activated epilepsy, activation, affect, affect epilepsy, affection, aggression, aggressiveness, ailment …
114ruin — n 1. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, destruction; dilapidation, ruination, wreck, wreckage, wrack, wrack and ruin; disruption, upheaval; crash, collision, crack up. 2. overthrow, overturn, subversion, suppression, subdual, conquest;… …
115destruction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of destroying Nouns 1. destruction, waste, dissolution, break[ing] up; disruption; consumption; disorganization. See loss. 2. (fact of destruction) fall, downfall, ruin, perdition, crash, smash,… …
116Khazars — Kazar redirects here. For the Marvel Comics character, see Ka Zar. For the village in Azerbaijan, see Xəzər. For Khazar University, see Khazar University. Khazaria Eastern Tourkia Khaganate …
117Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian peninsula — This is a timeline of notable events in the Muslim presence in Iberia, which started with the Umayyad conquest in the 8th century. Contents 1 Conquest (710–756) 2 The Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba (756–929) 3 The Umayyad Caliphate (929–1031) …
118devastate — [17] Etymologically as well as semantically, devastate is related to ‘lay waste’. It comes from the past participle of Latin dēvāstāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē and vāstāre ‘lay waste’. This was a derivative of vāstus… …
119devastate — [17] Etymologically as well as semantically, devastate is related to ‘lay waste’. It comes from the past participle of Latin dēvāstāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē and vāstāre ‘lay waste’. This was a derivative of vāstus… …
120harry — (v.) O.E. hergian make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder, the word used in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle for what the Vikings did to England, from P.Gmc. verb *harohan (Cf. O.Fris. urheria lay waste, ravage, plunder, O.N. herja to make a raid, to… …
