Synonym: annihilating, annihilative, crushing, withering. Similar words: statistics, statistical, rating, operating, creating, fascinating, concentrating, electroplating. Meaning: [devəsteɪtɪŋ] adj. 1. making light of 2. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction 3. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination.
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(151) "It's a devastating disease that you can completely eliminate if you pick it up early " says Matthew Hirschfeld a pediatrician at Alaska Native Medical Center.
(152) New Zealand's prime minister has denied that a group of Israelis caught up in the devastating Christchurch earthquake in February had links to the Israeli secret service Mossad.
(153) He makes the painting charity bazar for disable and sick person's foundation for many times, the devastating floods of the Yangtze River in1998 to paint sale.
(154) "Africa is one part of the world where a biological attack with smallpox is likely to have a more devastating effect, " he said.
(155) Starting pitcher Andy Pettitte watched Hughes work from the dugout in the seventh inning and said the way Hughes' fastball was rising, it looked a little bit like Mariano Rivera's devastating cutter.
(156) It's a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.
(157) Compared to human mortality, spiritual deadness is much more devastating.
(158) This move is bound to jeopardise the flow of the Brahmaputra, the lifeline of the Assam valley, causing devastating floods during the rainy season.
(159) I was too slow to play football, and my devastating curve and drop at 12 didn't come with any more break at 16.
(160) Urging deep cuts in federal spending, GOP lawmakers are threatening to oppose an increase in the federal debt limit, inviting what Geithner warns would be a devastating default by the government.
(161) This highly reductionist view of history has been enormously influential, but in her classic The God of the Machine, Isabel Paterson asks a devastating question: what gives you the steam-mill?
(162) The rats, which are responsible for devastating the native pollinator populations, are attracted to the flowers for their nectar.
(163) It's just so devastating. When I moved here I didn't even think about getting flood insurance," said one person.
(164) The cutting beam is a short ranged but devastating ionisation beam usually employed for gouging out recalcitrant moonlets .
(165) When the charr invaded the human kingdom of Ascalon centuries ago(Sentencedict.com ), King Adelbern invoked the devastating Foefire to keep the enemy from the gates.
(166) A tornado is a strong air convection generated by the strong wind vortex, such as high-speed rotation of the funnel shape, devastating.
(167) The popular outrage generated by Upton Sinclair's devastating, fact-based novel about the meatpacking industry in Chicago, The Jungle, had helped to create the Food and Drug Administration in 1906.
(168) The intestinal disease known as coccidiosis caused by protozoan parasites of genus Eimeria is one of the most economically devastating diseases in the poultry industry world wide.
More similar words: statistics, statistical, rating, operating, creating, fascinating, concentrating, electroplating, vast, state, evaluation, status, estate, statue, pasta, statute, a stage, coastal, developing, statement, cast aside, at a time, not in the least, Latin, limitation, invitation, voting, orientation, setting, hunting.