devastating effect

collocation in English

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devastating
adjective
uk
/ˈdev.ə.steɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ˈdev.ə.steɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
causing a lot of damage ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofdevastatingandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is well recognized that poor co-ordination between health and social care services can have adevastatingeffecton vulnerable older people.
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The condition has adevastatingeffecton an individual's life and without adequate treatment can be disabling.
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Left uninterrupted, this development will have adevastatingeffecton academic medicine because it will alter the setting within which medical education occurs.
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This study also included interviews with the informal carers of the patients who suffered from breathlessness, documenting itsdevastatingeffecton the carers' lives.
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The two organisations, whose relationship had previously been murky, began to synchronise their military activities against the government forces by 1988, perhaps earlier, todevastatingeffect.
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We must appreciate that such an idea could have adevastatingeffecton the coal industry and its employees.
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This, among other things, is having adevastatingeffecton output, on returns, on morale and on investment.
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It will have adevastatingeffecton employment in areas of high unemployment.
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Its closure will have adevastatingeffectin my constituency and surrounding areas.
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The present situation is having adevastatingeffect.
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It can have, and in many countries does have, adevastatingeffecton animal life.
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Such practices have adevastatingeffecton people's lives, and that is what we are determined to tackle.
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For people who rely on having the post delivered within a reasonable period of time, that could have adevastatingeffect.
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In addition, there is likely to be anotherdevastatingeffecton the businesses' retail side.
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That would have adevastatingeffectin other countries, as well as ours.
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The removal of social security benefits, rent rebates and income support will have adevastatingeffect.
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Think of thedevastatingeffecton that young life.
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It has had adevastatingeffecton her confidence in having tests and on her future life.
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It will have adevastatingeffecton the provision of facilities unless an assured continuation of funding can be guaranteed.
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That crime could also have adevastatingeffecton the ability of the ship to carry out its tasks.
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