Devastate and Dissolve

Devastate

Devastate verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Usage example: the explosion devastated an entire city block

Dissolve and devastate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dissolve" instead a verb "Devastate".

Dissolve

Dissolve verb - To cease to be visible.

Devastate and dissolve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Devastate" instead a verb "Dissolve".

Common collocations

rest devastate rest dissolve rest
world devastate world dissolve world
city devastate city dissolve city
forces devastate forces dissolve forces
Other words: opponents, nukes.
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