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devastates

Learn how to correctly hyphenate "devastates" with detailed syllable breakdown and pronunciation guide.

3 syllables
10 characters
English (US)
3syllables

devastates

Hyphenation via the Knuth-Liang algorithm — result not verified against authoritative sources.

devastates is a polysyllabic word with 3 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, devastates is hyphenated as:

Definitions ofdevastates

1verb
  • 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.
  • To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
  • To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
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