devastated area

collocation in English

meaningsofdevastatedandarea

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devastated
adjective
uk
/ˈdev.ə.steɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈdev.ə.steɪ.t̬ɪd/
completely ...
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area
noun
uk
/ˈeə.ri.ə/us
/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofdevastatedandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The main difficulty is that almost everydevastatedareais unique.
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Where you have adevastatedareaof that kind, this section does, with proper limitations, permit such an order to be made.
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We conceive their interest to be the reconstruction of theirdevastatedarea, and the rebuilding of their ruined villages.
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Outside adevastatedareathese shelters could give useful protection against radioactive fall-out.
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Her defeated foe is refusing to do anything to help in the reconstruction of thedevastatedarea.
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A thousand fires would be started in a ring around thedevastatedareawithin a diameter of three quarters of a mile.
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Many of us have had to bring a brigade into adevastatedareaand billet it very quickly.
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The undergrowth grew to about 10 feet or more and became adevastatedareawhich had to be dealt with long afterwards and at very great expense.
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I have only just come back from adevastatedarea, a town with a high rate of unemployment, and yet money is being spent there upon betting pools.
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Only columns operating from outside adevastatedareawill be able to do anything inside that area; and, therefore, it is vitally important to plan these mobile columns.
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We have been in existence three years, and what we have done in restoring countryside in adevastatedareaof one of our urban areas really has been remarkable.
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If, on the other hand, the area has no concern of a planning character with a movement out of adevastatedarea, it should be left alone.
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We told them about thedevastatedareawhere we have a chance to rebuild under one of the world's best planners, and we asked them to come in.
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Thedevastatedareawas a mobile home park.
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One agency donated $626,500, helping transport 50,000 mosquito nets to thedevastatedarea.
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A total of 5,500 bars of soap, 1,600 buckets, 50 baths, and over 180 latrines were distributed to the victims of thedevastatedarea.
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Devastated areas were rebuilt and rejuvenated with money from these newly made oil fortunes.
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Many of those who evacuated the devastated areas including emergency workers were stranded.
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The organization sent donated equipment to the devastated areas to help revive their local youth baseball leagues.
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Streets in devastated areas of the city were filled with sightseers checking out the ruins of homes and businesses, hampering efforts from first responders to find those missing under rubble.
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