опустошать — meaning in English
opustoshat
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English meaning
- decimate verb To destroy or reduce a large part of something.
- devastate verb To destroy something on a large scale.
- empty adj Containing nothing; not filled or occupied.
- evacuate verb To leave a dangerous place, or move people out of one, for their safety.
- eviscerate verb To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
- ravage verb To cause severe damage or destruction to something.
- reave verb To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
Senses
опустошать is used for these senses in English:
- decimate (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- devastate 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.
- empty (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- evacuate To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- eviscerate (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- lay waste (transitive) To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
- ravage (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- reave (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
decimate — full definition
- verb To destroy or reduce a large part of something.
- verb Historically, to kill one in every ten of a group, especially as a punishment carried out in the Roman army.
devastate — full definition
- verb To destroy something on a large scale.
- verb To leave someone deeply shocked and upset.