devastates

despoils, forays, harries, loots, marauds, pillages, plunders, sacks, strips

annihilates, desolates, eradicates, expunges, extinguishes, extirpates, nukes, obliterates, rubs out, shatters, smashes, totals, vaporizes, wastes, wipes out, wracks, wrecks

decimates, mows

demolishes, razes

crushes, overpowers, overruns, overthrows, overwhelms

beats, bests, clobbers, conquers, crushes, defeats, drubs, licks, masters, overbears, overcomes, overmatches, prevails (over), routs, scotches, skunks, subdues, surmounts, thrashes, trims, triumphs (over), trounces, wallops, whips, wins (against)

blasts, blows up, breaks, cripples, damages, defaces, deteriorates, disfigures, disintegrates, dissolves, dynamites, harms, impairs, injures, mangles, mars, mutilates, spoils, vitiates

erodes, scours, sweeps (away), washes out, wears (away)

dilapidates, disassembles, dismantles, guts, takes down, unbuilds, undoes, unmakes

blots out, effaces, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extirpates, liquidates, obliterates, removes, roots (out), snuffs (out), stamps (out), wipes out

despoils, havocs, loots, pillages, plunders, ravages, sacks, tramples, trashes, vandalizes

assassinates, butchers, cuts down, dispatches, executes, fells, kills, kills off, massacres, mows (down), murders, slaughters, slays, takes out, zaps

deluges, drowns, sinks

confutes, defeats, refutes

breaks, demoralizes, distresses, disturbs, rocks, shatters, staggers, throws, unmans, unnerves, upsets