devastates
SayDEV-uh-staytsUS · UK/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪts/AUS/ˈdev.ə.stæɪts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of devastate.
The prolonged drought devastates crops across the region every summer.
News of the sudden layoffs devastates the small factory town.
Note
One present-tense form serves every use of the verb: laying waste to a city or forest, demolishing a body of beliefs, wrecking something past repair, and crushing someone with grief. The subject is the cause, such as a drought, a war or a piece of news. The object is what is ruined, whether a region, an argument or a person. The silent e of devastate simply takes the -s.
devastates is a form of devastate
devastate, verb: To ruin most or all of the things across a large area, such as a city's buildings or a forest's trees. Full entry
- Forms
- devastatedevastates he/she/itdevastating -ing formdevastated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- devastate → devastates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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