devastating

Causing devastation.

Adjective

  1. Causing devastation.
    • Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation. - 1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway...
    • “The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make...

Forms

more devastating most devastating

Derived

devastatingly undevastating

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of devastate